Figure 1

Schematic representation of agarose gel electrophoresis of nested PCR products from clinical specimens using species-specific oligonucleotide pairs for A (P. vivax), B (P. falciparum), C (mix P. vivax & P. falciparum). Marker is 100 bp ladder. (A) The representative microscopically P. vivax diagnosed samples, which were positive by using P. vivax-specific primers (left panel), and negative by P. falciparum-specific primers (right panel). (B) The representative microscopically P. falciparum diagnosed samples, which were positive by using P. falciparum-specific primers (right panel), and negative by P. vivax-specific primers (left panel).(C) Demonstrates the representative samples, diagnosed by species-specific primers as mix P. falciparum and P. vivax, and which have been diagnosed by microscopy as P. vivax.