Giemsa-stained thick blood films as a source of DNA for Plasmodium species-specific real-time PCR

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cnops, Lieselotte ^a   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^a   Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Jacobs, Jan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MODIFICATION; GAMETOCYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SCALPEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; BLOOD; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BLOOD; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

EID: 78650404756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-370     Document Type: Article

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