Grants, Contracts, RFAs, and RFPs. 1  A grant is a funding mechanism for a particular scientific inquiry that you generate. You come up with the idea, they decide if it's a good idea, and they provide funding for you to do it. In contrast, a contract is a funding mechanism of government agencies or other organizations to obtain specified services or goods.
1 These tests are very good at identifying chlamydia. 2  A test that is positive almost always means the problem is there and is unlikely to be a false-positive test result. 3  A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is an example of a nucleic acid amplification test. 4  This test can also be done on a urine sample.
Real-time PCR with species-specific probes detected one plasmid copy of P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, and P. ovale specifically. The same sensitivity was achieved for all species with real-time PCR with the 18S screening probe.Ninety-seven blood samples were investigated.everal reports have shown that the DNA-based amplification methods had higher sensitivity (as few as 1 parasite/Î¼l of blood) than examination of thin blood smears, especially in cases of low parasitemia or mixed infections (3, 4, 23) and that they have the ability to differentiate Plasmodium species (31-33,35-37).