One year's experience with the polymerase chain reaction as a routine method for the diagnosis of imported malaria.

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Given the problems encountered in westernized countries with the laboratory diagnosis of malaria, namely sensitivity of the conventional methods and detection of mixed infections, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnosis has been developed and routinely used. The PCR used two sets of primers to simultaneously detect any infection due to the genus Plasmodium, or to the species P. falciparum. The PCR...

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