Human malaria diagnosis using a single-step direct-PCR based on the Plasmodium cytochrome oxidase III gene

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BACKGROUND: Nested PCRs based on the Plasmodium 18s-rRNA gene have been extensively used for human malaria diagnosis. However, they are not practical when large quantities of samples need to be processed, further there have been challenges in the performance and when interpreting results, especially when submicroscopic infections are analysed. Here the use of "direct PCR" was investigated with the aim of...

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