Submicroscopic and asymptomatic Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections are common in western Thailand - Molecular and serological evidence

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Baum, Elisabeth ^a   Sattabongkot, Jetsumon ^b   Sirichaisinthop, Jeeraphat ^c   Kiattibutr, Kirakorn ^b   Davies, D Huw ^a   Jain, Aarti ^a   Lo, Eugenia ^d   Lee, Ming Chieh ^d   Randall, Arlo Z ^e   Molina, Douglas M ^e   Liang, Xiaowu ^e   Cui, Liwang ^f   Felgner, Philip L ^a   Yan, Guiyun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Vector Borne Disease Training Center   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Antigen Discovery Inc   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Asymptomatic; Mixed species; Molecular screening; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Protein microarray; qPCR; Serology; Southeast asia; Submicroscopic; Surveillance; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; CHITINASE; CHROMOSOME ASSEMBLY FACTOR 1; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DNAJ; RING EXPORTED PROTEIN 1; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 3; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 4; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; CAPILLARY TUBE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRICK TEST; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; THAILAND; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928691653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0611-9     Document Type: Article

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