Volume 11, Number 1, January 2005

Plasmodium vivax Malaria

Dhanpat K. Kochar,* Vishal Saxena,† Narvachan Singh,* Sanjay K. Kochar,* S. Vijay Kumar,† and Ashis Das†
*Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India; and †Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Figure. Polymerase chain reaction analysis of patient samples: lane Pf = positive control showing Plasmodium falciparum band at position ≈1,400 bp; lanes 1–7 and 9–12 = P. vivax- positive samples showing band at ≈500 bp; (lanes 1–7 correspond to cases 1–7, and lanes 9–12 correspond to patients 8–11 numbered in Tables 1 and 2.); lane 8 = sample showing bands at ≈1,400 bp and 500 bp, indicating mixed infection; lane 13 = negative control, normal human DNA; lane kb = 1kb DNA ladder mix (MBI Fermentas, SM#0331).

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