A New Real-Time PCR for the Detection of Plasmodium ovale wallikeri

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Calderaro, Adriana ^a   Piccolo, Giovanna ^a   Gorrini, Chiara ^a   Montecchini, Sara ^a   Rossi, Sabina ^a   Medici, Maria Cristina ^a   Chezzi, Carlo ^a   Snounou, Georges ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM OVALE CURTISI; PLASMODIUM OVALE MALARIA; PLASMODIUM OVALE WALLIKERI; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AFRICA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM OVALE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM OVALE;

EID: 84868091988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048033     Document Type: Article

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