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Diagnostics (Malaria)

Nonisotopic Liquid Hybridization Assay Offers Advantages

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 27th, 1996

A polymerase chain reaction-based nonisotopic liquid hybridization assay may be useful in detecting mixed malaria infections.

Because the various procedures used to diagnose malaria are limited, new approaches are seriously needed, noted Denise A. Oliveira, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues.

Therefore, Oliveira et al. set out to develop a rapid, reliable, specific, sensitive malaria diagnosis assay that was suitable for use in the field ("Field Evaluation of a Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Nonisotopic Liquid Hybridization Assay for Malaria Diagnosis," the Journal of Infectious Diseases, May...

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