Polymerase chain reaction and histology in diagnosis of placental malaria in an area of unstable malaria transmission in Central Sudan

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Elbashir, Haggar M ^a   Salih, Magdi M ^b   Elhassan, Elhassan M ^c   Mohmmed, Ahmed A ^d   Elbashir, Mustafa I ^a   Adam, Ishag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEZIRA   (Sudan)

^d NATIONAL RIBAT UNIVERSITY   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDAN;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84155176722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-128     Document Type: Article

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