High prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale in malaria patients along the Thai-Myanmar border, as revealed by acridine orange staining and PCR-based diagnoses

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 304-312

  Zhou, M ^a   Liu, Q ^a   Wongsrichanalai, C ^b   Suwonkerd, W ^c   Panart, K ^c   Prajakwong, S ^c   Pensiri, A ^d   Kimura, M ^e   Matsuoka, H ^f   Ferreira, M U ^a,g   Isomura, S ^a   Kawamoto, F ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ARMED FORCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Thailand)

^c Vec Borne Disease Control Centre 2   (Thailand)

^d Provincial Health Department   (Thailand)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acridine orange staining; Myanmar; PCR diagnosis; Plasmodium malariae; Plasmodium ovale; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; MALARIA; PARASITIC INFECTION;

ARTICLE; GENE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MYANMAR; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

MYANMAR; THAILAND;

PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 7144253821     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1998.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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