Spurious amplification of a Plasmodium vivax small-subunit RNA gene by use of primers currently used to detect P. knowlesi

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4173-4175

  Imwong, Mallika ^a   Tanomsing, Naowarat ^a   Pukrittayakamee, Sasithon ^a,b   Day, Nicholas P J ^a,c   White, Nicholas J ^a,c   Snounou, Georges ^d,e,f  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Royal Institute   (Thailand)

^c CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 71549116085     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00811-09     Document Type: Article

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