Shah, Jyotsna
Poruri, Akhila
Mark, Olivia
Khadilka, Urmila
Mohring, Franziska
Moon, Robert W.
Ramasamy, Ranjan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0246-7053
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (A1056785)
Article History
Received: 10 January 2017
Accepted: 5 July 2017
First Online: 19 July 2017
Ethics approval
: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India and the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed project, Kisumu, Kenya. Approval was granted to ID-FISH Technology Inc., for the use of archived de-identified samples submitted for routine testing that would otherwise have been discarded.
: Not applicable.
: JS is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of ID-FISH and owns ID-FISH stock. OM is an employee and RR an affiliate of ID-FISH. Other authors have no affiliation with ID-FISH. JS and OM are inventors on the following relevant patents: Nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting <i>Plasmodium</i> parasites. Patent number US 007927801, issue date 4/19/2011; Nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting <i>Plasmodium</i> parasites (54) (75) Patent number US 008323901, Issue Date 12/4/2012; Nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting <i>Plasmodium</i> parasites (54) (75) Patent number US 008592568B2, Issue Date 11/26/2013. The PK-FISH assay kit is proprietary to ID-FISH and subject to US patent application number 15/389,827 on nucleic acid probes and methods of detection of <i>Plasmodium knowlesi</i>.
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