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

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 molecu...

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Main Authors: Giselle Fernandes Maciel de Castro Lima, Naomi W Lucchi, Luciana Silva-Flannery, Alexandre Macedo-de-Oliveira, Angelica D Hristov, Juliana Inoue, Maria de Jesus Costa-Nascimento, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Silvia M Di Santi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4784969?pdf=render

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