[Diagnosis of malaria by allele-specific PCR].

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Malaria is relatively rare in Japan. Of 13 patients referred to our laboratory for malarial screening in the past 4 years, malarial parasites were detected in 8. Conventional screening procedures commonly detect hepatic dysfunction, thrombocytopenia, elevated LDH activity, and increased CRP levels in malaria patients. More notably, the 8 malaria patients identified by our laboratory also demonstrated reactive...

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