Detection of mixed infections with plasmodium spp. by PCR, India, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1853-1857

  Krishna, Sri ^a   Bharti, Praveen K ^a   Chandel, Himashu S ^a   Ahmad, Amreen ^a   Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Singh, Puspendra P ^a   Singh, Mrigendra P ^b   Singh, Neeru ^a  

^a National Institute for Research in Tribal Health   (India)

^b National Institute for Malaria Research Field Station   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 18S; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VECTOR CONTROL; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; UTILIZATION; VIROLOGY;

COINFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84942107413     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2110.150678     Document Type: Article

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