Specific, sensitive and rapid detection of human plasmodium knowlesi infection by loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) in blood samples

• Main Authors: Lau, Y.L., Fong, M.Y., Mahmud, R., Chang, P.Y., Palaeya, V., Cheong, F.W., Chin, L.C., Anthony, C.N., Al-Mekhlafi, A.M., Chen, Y.
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2011
• 主題: R Medicine
• 在線閱讀: http://eprints.um.edu.my/3240/1/Specific%2C_sensitive_and_rapid_detection_of_human.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/3240/

Background: The emergence of Plasmodium knowlesi in humans, which is in many cases misdiagnosed by microscopy as Plasmodium malariae due to the morphological similarity has contributed to the needs of detection and differentiation of malaria parasites. At present, nested PCR targeted on Plasmodium s...