title: Molecular detection of Plasmodium knowlesi in a Dutch traveler by real-time PCR.
abstract: Plasmodium knowlesi infection with low parasitemia presents a diagnostic challenge, as rapid diagnostic tests are often negative and identification to the species level by microscopy is difficult. P. knowlesi malaria in a traveler is described, and real-time PCR is demonstrated to support fast and reliable diagnosis and identification to the species level.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Lonneke.Link@Catharina-Ziekenhuis.nl
authors.forename: Lonneke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Link
authors.forename: Aldert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bart
authors.forename: Nienke
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Verhaar
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Gool
authors.forename: Marjolijn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pronk
authors.forename: Volkher
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Scharnhorst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*; D025202:Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D010274:Parasitology / Q000379:methods*; D016790:Plasmodium knowlesi / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D014195:Travel