Real-time PCR versus conventional PCR for malaria parasite detection in low-grade parasitemia

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-432

  Gama, Bianca E ^a   Silva Pires, Felipe do E S ^a   Lopes, Mauro N'Kruman R ^a   Cardoso, Maria Angélica B ^a   Britto, Constança ^a   Torres, Kátia L ^b   de Mendonça Lima, Leila ^a   de Souza, José Maria ^c   Daniel Ribeiro, Cláudio T ^a   de Fátima Ferreira da Cruz, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Foundation of Hematology and Hemotherapy of the Amazonas State   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

6 carboxy fluoroscein; base pair number; bp; CT; deoxyribonucleic acid; deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates; determination coefficient; Diagnosis; DNA; dNTPs; EDTA; ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; FAM ; Malaria; N,N,N,N tetramethyl 6 carboxy rhodamine; nanomolar; nM; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; R2; RBC; Real time PCR; real time polymerase chain reaction; red blood cells; ribosomal ribonucleic acid; rRNA; TAMRA ; TBS; thick blood smears; threshold cycle; WBC; white blood cells

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MALARIA VACCINE; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALARIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249813096     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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