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Improving the Molecular Diagnosis of Malaria: Droplet Digital PCR-Based Method Using Saliva as a DNA Source
13 May 2022
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Malaria is an acute febrile disease caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium . Light microscopy (LM) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of malaria. Despite this method being rapid and inexpensive, it has a low limit of detection, which hampers the identification of low parasitemia infections. By using multicopy targets and highly sensitive molecular techniques, it is possible to change this scenario. In...
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