Plasmodium chabaudi: Reverse transcription PCR for the detection and quantification of transmission stage malaria parasites

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-20

  Wargo, Andrew R ^a   Randle, Nadine ^b   Chan, Brian H K ^a   Thompson, Joanne ^a   Read, Andrew F ^a   Babiker, Hamza A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Chronic infection; DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid; dNTPs, deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate mix; Gametocyte; Malaria transmission; pcs230; Plasmodium chabaudi; RNA, ribonucleic acid

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PCS 230; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DILUTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 29144442338     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.08.013     Document Type: Article

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