Still Searching for a Suitable Molecular Test to Detect Hidden Plasmodium Infection: A Proposal for Blood Donor Screening in Brazil

BACKGROUND: Efforts have been made to establish sensitive diagnostic tools for malaria screening in blood banks in order to detect malaria asymptomatic carriers. Microscopy, the malaria reference test in Brazil, is time consuming and its sensitivity depends on microscopist experience. Although molec...

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Autores principales: Lima, Giselle Fernandes Maciel de Castro, Lucchi, Naomi W., Silva-Flannery, Luciana, Macedo- de- Oliveira, Alexandre, Hristov, Angelica D, Inoue, Juliana, Costa-Nascimento, Maria de Jesus, Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam, Di Santi, Silvia M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26959994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150391

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26959994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150391

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