Development of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification–Based Lateral Flow Device Method for the Detection of Malaria
The present study aims to develop a method for rapid diagnosis of malaria using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with a lateral flow device (LFD). By adding the biotin-labeled and fluorescein amiditelabeled loop primers to the LAMP reaction solution, the end product can be visu...
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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018
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Online Access: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/21352/ https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0177 |
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Summary: | The present study aims to develop a method for rapid diagnosis of malaria using loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with a lateral flow device (LFD). By adding the biotin-labeled and fluorescein amiditelabeled loop primers to the LAMP reaction solution, the end product can be visualized on a LFD. The entire procedure takes approximately 42 minutes tocomplete, LAMP assay exhibited high sensitivity, asthe detection limit was 0.01 pg/μL for all five Plasmodium species. Itwas demonstrated that all Plasmodium knowlesi (N = 90) and Plasmodium vivax(N= 56) were positively amplified by LAMP-LFD assay, whereas healthy donor samples (N = 8) were negative. However, not all mixed infections were positive, and other infected nonmalaria samples were negative. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification-LFD representsarobust approach with potential suitability for useinresource-constrained laboratories. We believe that LAMP-LFD has a potential to be developed as point-of-care diagnostic tool in future. |
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