Submicroscopic malaria parasite carriage: How reproducible are polymerase chain reaction-based methods?

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-28

  Costa, Daniela Camargos ^a   Madureira, Ana Paula ^b   Amaral, Lara Cotta ^a   Sanchez, Bruno Antônio Marinho ^c   Gomes, Luciano Teixeira ^c   Fernandes Fontes, Cor Jésus ^c   Limongi, Jean Ezequiel ^d   Alves de Brito, Cristiana Ferreira ^a   Carvalho, Luzia Helena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^d Centro de Controle de Zoonoses   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Malaria; PCR; Reproducibility; Submicroscopic infection

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COINFECTION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893650574     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140102     Document Type: Article

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