Plasmodium vivax: Reverse transcriptase real-time PCR for gametocyte detection and quantitation in clinical samples

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 348-354

  Lima, Nathália F ^a   Bastos, Melissa S ^a   Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gametocytes; Plasmodium vivax; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; PVS25 GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84867328885     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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