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At present, the most sensitive method for the detection and identification of malaria is the microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood smears [1]. The worldwide prevalence and distribution of malaria dictates a need for supplementary molecular procedures for this time-consuming and labor-intensive process. A uniform procedure which allows the identification not only of the individual species of the malaria parasite but that can be applied to the species-specific detection of parasitological infection in general would be of great value.
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Waters, A.P., McCutchan, T.F. (1991). Ribosomal RNA is an Effective Target for the Species-Specific Detection of Malaria Parasites. In: Vaheri, A., Tilton, R.C., Balows, A. (eds) Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology and Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76603-9_48
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