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Reliable enumeration of malaria parasites in thick blood films using digital image analysis

BACKGROUND: Quantitation of malaria parasite density is an important component of laboratory diagnosis of malaria. Microscopy of Giemsa-stained thick blood films is the conventional method for parasite enumeration. Accurate and reproducible parasite counts are difficult to achieve, because of inhere...

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Autor principal: Frean, John A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19775454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-218