Limitation of malaria diagnosis with the Cell-Dyn ® analyser: Not all haemozoin-containing monocytes are detected or shown

International Journal of Laboratory Hematology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Hanscheid T ^a,b   Romao R ^a   Grobusch, M P ^b,c   Amaral, T ^d   Melo Cristino, J ^a,d  

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

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; HEMOZOIN;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COUNT; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MONOCYTES;

EID: 80051918312     PISSN: 17515521     EISSN: 1751553X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-553X.2011.01318.x     Document Type: Letter

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