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Diagnosis of malarial infection using change in properties of optically trapped red blood cells

BACKGROUND: In previous work studying the properties of red blood cells (RBCs) held in an optical tweezers trap, we observed an increase in the spectrum of Brownian fluctuations for RBCs from a Plasmodium falciparum culture—due to increased rigidity of the cells—compared to normal RBCs. We wanted to...

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Autores principales: Paul, Apurba, Padmapriya, Ponnan, Natarajan, Vasant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chang Gung University 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6138821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28521900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bj.2016.10.001