Sensitive Detection of Plasmodium vivax Using a High-Throughput, Colourimetric Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (HtLAMP) Platform: A Potential Novel Tool for Malaria Elimination.

INTRODUCTION:Plasmodium vivax malaria has a wide geographic distribution and poses challenges to malaria elimination that are likely to be greater than those of P. falciparum. Diagnostic tools for P. vivax infection in non-reference laboratory settings are limited to microscopy and rapid diagnostic...

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Main Authors: Sumudu Britton, Qin Cheng, Matthew J Grigg, Catherine B Poole, Cielo Pasay, Timothy William, Kimberley Fornace, Nicholas M Anstey, Colin J Sutherland, Chris Drakeley, James S McCarthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-02-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4752294?pdf=render