Application of molecular methods for monitoring transmission stages of malaria parasites

Biomedical Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Babiker, Hamza A ^a,b   Schneider, Petra ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MALARIA PARASITES; MALARIA TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR METHODS; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEXUAL STAGES; SPECIFIC DETECTION; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

STAGES;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; LONGEVITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 52649148484     PISSN: 17486041     EISSN: 1748605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/3/3/034007     Document Type: Article

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