1. Paper microfluidic implementation of loop mediated isothermal amplification for early diagnosis of hepatitis C virus
- Author
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Jonathan M. Cooper, Pawel Jajesniak, Alice Garrett, Suleman R. Sabir, Amanda Bradley-Stewart, Julien Reboud, Rory Gunson, Gaolian Xu, Chris Davis, E. Thomson, Weronika Witkowska McConnell, and Zhugen Yang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Genotype ,Point-of-Care Systems ,Science ,Hepatitis C virus ,Microfluidics ,Biomedical Engineering ,Loop-mediated isothermal amplification ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Hepacivirus ,World Health Organization ,medicine.disease_cause ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Virus ,World health ,Patient care ,Blood Urea Nitrogen ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Intensive care medicine ,Active hepatitis ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Diagnostic Tests, Routine ,business.industry ,Infectious-disease diagnostics ,Diagnostic test ,General Chemistry ,Viral Load ,Hepatitis C ,3. Good health ,Early Diagnosis ,Molecular Diagnostic Techniques ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Laboratories ,business ,Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques ,Nucleic acid detection - Abstract
The early diagnosis of active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains a significant barrier to the treatment of the disease and to preventing the associated significant morbidity and mortality seen, worldwide. Current testing is delayed due to the high cost, long turnaround times and high expertise needed in centralised diagnostic laboratories. Here we demonstrate a user-friendly, low-cost pan-genotypic assay, based upon reverse transcriptase loop mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP). We developed a prototype device for point-of-care use, comprising a LAMP amplification chamber and lateral flow nucleic acid detection strips, giving a visually-read, user-friendly result in, Current HCV nucleic acid-based diagnosis is largely performed in centralised laboratories. Here, the authors present a pan-genotypic RNA assay, based on reverse transcriptase loop mediated isothermal amplification and develop a low-cost prototype paper-based lateral flow device for point-of-care use, providing a visually read result within 40 min.
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- 2021