Short report: Plasmodium-specific molecular assays produce uninterpretable results and non-Plasmodium spp. sequences in field-collected Anopheles vectors

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1117-1121

  Harrison, Genelle F ^a   Foley, Desmond H ^a   Rueda, Leopoldo M ^a   Melanson, Vanessa R ^a   Wilkerson, Richard C ^a   Long, Lewis S ^a   Richardson, Jason H ^a   Klein, Terry A ^b   Kim, Heung Chul ^b,c   Lee, Won Ja ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Public Health Command Region Pacific ^*  (South Korea)

^c Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES BELENRAE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE CARRIER; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH KOREA; ZOOPHTHORA LANCEOLATA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890423878     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0581     Document Type: Article

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