Simple blood-spot sampling with nested polymerase chain reaction detection for epidemiology studies on Brugia malayi

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 717-721

  Cox Singh, Janet ^a,c   Pomrehn, Andrea S ^a   Rahman, Hasan A ^b   Zakaria, Robaiza ^a   Miller, Andy O ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b Sabah Department of Health   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Blood spot sampling; Brugia malayi; Epidemiology; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUGIA MALAYI; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NEMATODIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BRUGIA MALAYI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032987545     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(99)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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