Malaria diagnostics: Now and the future

Parasitology

Volumn 141, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1873-1879

  Chiodini, Peter L ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

malaria; microscopy; nucleic acid detection; rapid diagnostic tests

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTOR;

PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84927730596     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182014001371     Document Type: Article

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