Direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 using non-commercial RT-LAMP reagents on heat-inactivated samples.
Sci Rep
; 11(1): 1820, 2021 01 19.
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| ID: mdl-33469065
RT-LAMP detection of SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to be a valuable approach to scale up COVID-19 diagnostics and thus contribute to limiting the spread of the disease. Here we present the optimization of highly cost-effective in-house produced enzymes, and we benchmark their performance against commercial alternatives. We explore the compatibility between multiple DNA polymerases with high strand-displacement activity and thermostable reverse transcriptases required for RT-LAMP. We optimize reaction conditions and demonstrate their applicability using both synthetic RNA and clinical patient samples. Finally, we validate the optimized RT-LAMP assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in unextracted heat-inactivated nasopharyngeal samples from 184 patients. We anticipate that optimized and affordable reagents for RT-LAMP will facilitate the expansion of SARS-CoV-2 testing globally, especially in sites and settings where the need for large scale testing cannot be met by commercial alternatives.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Técnicas de Amplificación de Ácido Nucleico
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Técnicas de Diagnóstico Molecular
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido