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Real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the rapid detection and characterization of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in returned travelers.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Mar 2006
Farcas Gabriella A, Soeller Rainer, Zhong Kathleen, Zahirieh Alireza, Kain Kevin C
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BACKGROUND: Imported drug-resistant malaria is a growing problem in industrialized countries. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is essential to prevent malaria-associated mortality in returned travelers. However, outside of a limited number of specialized centers, the microscopic diagnosis of malaria is slow, unreliable, and provides little information about drug resistance. Molecular diagnostics have the potential to...
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