A highly sensitive, nested polymerase chain reaction based method using simple DNA extraction to detect malaria sporozoites in mosquitos

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 631-635

  Vythilingam, I ^a   Nitiavathy, K ^a   Yi, P ^b   Bakotee, B ^c   Hugo, B ^c   Singh, Balbir ^d   Wirtz, R A ^e   Palmer, K ^e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

^b National Malaria Center   (Cambodia)

^c Solomon Isl Med Research Institute   (Solomon Islands)

^d UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; MELANESIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MALARIA; MELANESIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033290083     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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