Article
Serologic and genetic characterization of Plasmodium vivax from whole blood-impregnated filter paper discs.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Apr 1992
Kain K C, Wirtz R A, Fernandez I, Franke E D, Rodriguez M H, Lanar D E
Abstract excerpt
The presence in the New World of a variant strain of Plasmodium vivax (VK247) containing a unique circumsporozoite (CS) repeat domain was determined by the detection of antibodies to the variant CS protein and by genetic analysis of the CS gene from field isolates. Whole blood specimens were coll...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Protozoan
- Antigens, Protozoan
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Protozoan
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Gene Amplification
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Malaria, Vivax
- Mexico
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization