Comparison of diagnostic methods for the detection and quantification of the four sympatric Plasmodium species in field samples from Papua New Guinea

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rosanas Urgell, Anna ^a,b   Mueller, Dania ^c,d   Betuela, Inoni ^a   Barnadas, Céline ^a   Iga, Jonah ^a   Zimmerman, Peter A ^e   Del Portillo, Hernando A ^b,f   Siba, Peter ^a   Mueller, Ivo ^a   Felger, Ingrid ^c,d  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGASE; MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MICROSPHERES; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 78650020982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-361     Document Type: Article

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