Pathogen Genotyping in Polyclonal Infections: Application of a Fluorogenic Polymerase-Chain-Reaction Assay in Malaria

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1245-1249

  Decuypere, Saskia ^a,c   Elinck, Ellen ^a,b   Van Overmeir, Chantal ^a   Talisuna, Ambrose O ^a,d   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; FLUOROGENIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0242364644     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378521     Document Type: Article

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