Sensitive Detection of Plasmodium vivax Using a High-Throughput, Colourimetric Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (HtLAMP) Platform: A Potential Novel Tool for Malaria Elimination

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Britton, Sumudu ^a   Cheng, Qin ^b   Grigg, Matthew J ^c   Poole, Catherine B ^d   Pasay, Cielo ^a   William, Timothy ^e   Fornace, Kimberley ^f   Anstey, Nicholas M ^c   Sutherland, Colin J ^f   Drakeley, Chris ^f   McCarthy, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^e Jesselton Medical Centre   (Malaysia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA;

ARTICLE; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MALARIA CONTROL; MALAYSIA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TURNAROUND TIME; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, VIVAX; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROCEDURES;

HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALAYSIA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84959290432     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004443     Document Type: Article

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