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SUBMITTER: Givens MB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3911425 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20131016 1
A heteroduplex tracking assay used to genotype Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein 1 was adapted to a capillary electrophoresis format, obviating the need for radiolabeled probes and allowing its use in settings where malaria is endemic. This new assay achieved good allelic discrimination and detected high multiplicities of infection in 63 P. vivax infections in Cambodia. More than half of the recurrent parasitemias sampled displayed identical or highly related genotypes compared to the i ...[more]