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

• Main Authors: Sumudu Britton (Author), Qin Cheng (Author), Matthew J Grigg (Author), Catherine B Poole (Author), Cielo Pasay (Author), Timothy William (Author), Kimberley Fornace (Author), Nicholas M Anstey (Author), Colin J Sutherland (Author), Chris Drakeley (Author), James S McCarthy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...