Is flow cytometry better in counting malaria pigment-containing leukocytes compared to microscopy?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hänscheid, Thomas ^a,b   Frita, Rosangela ^b   Längin, Matthias ^a,c   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,c   Grobusch, Martin P ^a,d  

^a Medical Research Unit   (Gabon)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOZOIN; HEMOPROTEIN; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 72749088974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-255     Document Type: Article

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