A dried blood sample on filter paper is suitable for detecting Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Acta Tropica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-127

  Maeno, Yoshimasa ^a   Nakazawa, Shusuke ^b   Dao, Le Duc ^c   Yamamoto, Naoki ^a   Giang, Nguyen Duc ^c   Van Hanh, Truong ^c   Thuan, Le Khanh ^c   Taniguchi, Koki ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Institute of Malariology Parasitology and Entomology Hanoi   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Dried blood; Filter paper; pfg377 mRNA; Plasmodium falciparum; RT PCR; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; BLOOD; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FILTER PAPER; GAMETOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 47549104056     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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