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SUBMITTER: Mohon AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6796404 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mohon Abu Naser AN Getie Sisay S Jahan Nusrat N Alam Mohammad Shafiul MS Pillai Dylan R DR
Malaria journal 20191016 1
<h4>Background</h4>Malaria elimination requires diagnostic methods able to detect parasite levels well below what is currently possible with microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests. This is particularly true in surveillance of malaria at the population level that includes so-called "asymptomatic" individuals.<h4>Methods</h4>The development of the first ultrasensitive loop mediated amplification method capable of detecting malaria from both whole blood and dried blood spots (DBS) is described. The ...[more]