Short report: Polymerase chain reaction detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA from stored serum samples: Implications for retrospective diagnosis of malaria

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 444-446

  Bharti, Ajay R ^a   Patra, Kailash P ^a   Chuquiyauri, Raul ^b   Kosek, Margaret ^c   Gilman, Robert H ^c   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^b   Vinetz, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35748975667     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.444     Document Type: Article

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