Quantification of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in differential stages of development by quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-41

  Schneider, Petra ^a   Schoone, Gerard ^b   Schallig, Henk ^b   Verhage, Danielle ^a   Telgt, Denise ^a   Eling, Wijnand ^a   Sauerwein, Robert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ECL; electrochemiluminescence; Q RNA; QT NASBA; Quantitative NASBA; quantitative nucleic acid sequence based amplification; quantitative RNA, internal quantification control; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOLLOW UP; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 3342917490     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.03.018     Document Type: Article

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