Improving detection of avian malaria from host blood: a step towards a standardised protocol for diagnostics

Parasitology Research

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3905-3911

  Niebuhr, Chris N ^a   Blasco Costa, Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Elution; Extraction; PCR; Plasmodium; Qiagen

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; ELUTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIRD; EVALUATION STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84973161039     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-016-5157-4     Document Type: Article

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