High-speed shaking of frozen blood clots for extraction of human and malaria parasite DNA

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lundblom, Klara ^a   Macharia, Alex ^b   Lebbad, Marianne ^c   Mohammed, Adan ^b   Färnert, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; HEMOGLOBIN H;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FROZEN BLOOD CLOT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KENYA; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BLOOD; EVALUATION; FREEZING; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; FREEZING; HEMOGLOBIN H; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 79961101158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-229     Document Type: Article

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