Applied genomics: Data mining reveals species-specific malaria diagnostic targets more sensitive than 18S rRNA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2411-2418

  Demas, Allison ^a,b,c,i   Oberstaller, Jenna ^d   DeBarry, Jeremy ^e   Lucchi, Naomi W ^a,b   Srinivasamoorthy, Ganesh ^e   Sumari, Deborah ^f   Kabanywanyi, Abdunoor M ^f   Villegas, Leopoldo ^g   Escalante, Ananias A ^h   Kachur, S Patrick ^a   Barnwell, John W ^a   Peterson, David S ^e   Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam ^a   Kissinger, Jessica C ^d,e  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d University of Georgia   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^g Asociación Civil Impacto Social   (Venezuela)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

APPLIED GENOMICS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; VENEZUELA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 79959842094     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02603-10     Document Type: Article

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