Highly Sensitive Quantitative Real-Time PCR for the Detection of Plasmodium Liver-Stage Parasite Burden following Low-Dose Sporozoite Challenge

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Schussek, Sophie ^a,b   Groves, Penny L ^a   Apte, Simon H ^a   Doolan, Denise L ^a,b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVER STAGE PARASITE BURDEN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE LOAD; PLASMODIUM YOELII; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LIVER; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 84884856559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077811     Document Type: Article

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