Real-time quantitative PCR with SYBR Green I detection for estimating copy numbers of nine drug resistance candidate genes in Plasmodium falciparum

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ferreira, Isabel D ^a   Do Rosário, Virgílio E ^a   Cravo, Pedro V L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; GENOMIC DNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; TRANSLATIONALLY CONTROLLED TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, MDR; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33646360203     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-1     Document Type: Article

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