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Detection of Plasmodium using filter paper and nested PCR for patients with malaria in Sanliurfa, in Turkey

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Title
Detection of Plasmodium using filter paper and nested PCR for patients with malaria in Sanliurfa, in Turkey
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Malaria Journal, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12936-016-1334-2
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Nebiye Yentur Doni, Fadile Yildiz Zeyrek, Adnan Seyrek

Abstract

The objective of this study to detect Plasmodium and a subspecies of Plasmodium using filter paper in malaria endemic province, Sanliurfa, in Turkey, compare the results of nested PCR (nPCR) with microscopy for the diagnosis of malaria and present the epidemiological data of malaria. This study was carried out in malaria-endemic Sanliurfa between 2008 and 2011. Finger prick blood samples, thick and thin Giemsa-stained blood smears, were collected from 153 malaria-suspected farmworkers. The Giemsa-stained blood smears were examined microscopically. The obtained DNA products, extracted from blood-spotted filter papers or from the thick blood smears, were analysed by nPCR to amplify the 18S ssrRNA Plasmodium gene with genus and specific primers. The results of the microscopy were compared to the nPCR results. Of the specimens, 7.2 % were determined as Plasmodium-positive by microscopy, whereas 9.8 % were determined as Plasmodium-positive by nPCR. Of the positive Plasmodium specimens, 93.33 % were identified as P. vivax. Four out of the 15 specimens that were microscopically diagnosed as negative were Plasmodium-positive with nPCR. When compared to the microscopy, the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values of the nPCR were determined as 100, 97.2 and 73.3 %, respectively. nPCR was determined to be more sensitive and specific than microscopy. This study revealed that the accurate diagnosis of malaria by nPCR was compulsory in malaria-endemic Sanliurfa and nPCR should be applied routinely in laboratory studies.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 64 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 21 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 2%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 22 34%
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