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作为可能的疟疾生物标记物的挥发性皮肤排放物

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

根据对来自肯尼亚西部年龄12岁的400多名儿童的皮肤气味的分析,科研人员报告了来自感染疟疾和未感染疟疾的人类个体以及有症状和无症状的被感染个体的皮肤挥发性排放物的独特的谱;机器学习模型根据皮肤挥发谱识别出了无症状感染,这包括寄生虫载量太低而无法被显微镜检测到的个体的无症状感染。

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