Malaria Diagnosis
PCR-ligase detection assay for malaria infection diagnosis developed
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 22nd, 2004
"The diagnosis of infections caused by Plasmodium species is critical for understanding the nature of malarial disease, treatment efficacy, malaria control, and public health. The demands of field-based epidemiological studies of malaria will require faster and more sensitive diagnostic methods as new antimalarial drugs and vaccines are explored. We have developed a multiplex PCR-ligase detection reaction (LDR) assay that allows the simultaneous diagnosis of infection by all four parasite species causing...
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