Detection and differentiation of Plasmodium species by polymerase chain reaction and colorimetric detection in blood samples of patients with suspected malaria

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-29

  Whiley, David M ^a   LeCornec, Genevera M ^b   Baddeley, Annette ^b   Savill, John ^b   Syrmis, Melanie W ^a   Mackay, Ian M ^a   Siebert, David J ^b   Burns, Dominic ^b   Nissen, Michael ^a   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; COLORIMETRY; DNA PROBES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2342456303     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2003.10.014     Document Type: Article

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