Frozen blood clots can be used for the diagnosis of distinct Plasmodium species in man and non-human primates from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
Filipe Vieira Santos de AbreuLarissa Rodrigues GomesAline Rosa Lavigne MelloCesare Bianco-JúniorAnielle de Pina-CostaEdmilson Dos SantosDanilo Simonini TeixeiraPatrícia BrasilCláudio Tadeu Daniel-RibeiroRicardo Lourenço-de-OliveiraMaria de Fátima Ferreira-da-CruzPublished in: Malaria journal (2018)
Blood clots from human and non-human primates may be an important and low cost source of DNA for malaria surveillance in the Atlantic Forest.