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EVALUATION OF A REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ASSAY FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF MALARIA IN PATIENTS FROM THAILAND
1 Nov 2005
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We compared the diagnosis of malaria in 297 patients from Thailand by a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay using the LightCycler with conventional microscopy using Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films. The PCR assay can be completed in one hour and has the potential to detect and identify four species of Plasmodium in a single reaction by use of melting temperature curve analysis (however, we...
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