Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase assay to detect malarial parasites

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 237-239

  Malik, Sonia ^a   Khan, Shoeb ^a   Das, Anupam ^a   Samantaray, J C ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ISOENZYME; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11344286663     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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