Strategies for Detection of Plasmodium species Gametocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Wampfler, Rahel ^a,b   Mwingira, Felistas ^a,b   Javati, Sarah ^a,b,c   Robinson, Leanne ^c   Betuela, Inoni ^c   Siba, Peter ^c   Beck, Hans Peter ^a,b   Mueller, Ivo ^c,d   Felger, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN PFS25; PROTEIN PVS25; RNA 18S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GAMETOCYTE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 18S GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884693697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076316     Document Type: Article

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