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A Filter Paper Method for the Detection of Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes by Reverse Transcription–Polymerase Chain Reaction
1 Jan 2008
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes are obligate parasite sexual stages required for transmission of malaria from human hosts to the mosquito vector. Assessment of gametocyte carriers in the population is critical in understanding malaria transmission dynamics and in epidemiology studies. We applied a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based approach to detect pfs25 transcripts from blood...