Molecular Detection of Schistosome Infections with a Disposable Microfluidic Cassette

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Song, Jinzhao ^a   Liu, Changchun ^a   Bais, Swarna ^b   Mauk, Michael G ^a   Bau, Haim H ^a   Greenberg, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TIME FACTOR;

HELMINTH DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84953261930     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004318     Document Type: Article

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