Rapid and Extraction-Free Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Saliva by Colorimetric Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification

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BACKGROUND: Rapid, reliable, and widespread testing is required to curtail the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Current gold-standard nucleic acid tests are hampered by supply shortages in critical reagents including nasal swabs, RNA extraction kits, personal protective equipment, instrumentation, and labor.

METHODS: To overcome these challenges, we developed a rapid colorimetric assay using reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) optimized on human saliva samples without an RNA purification step. We describe the optimization of saliva pretreatment protocols to enable analytically sensitive viral detection by RT-LAMP. We optimized the RT-LAMP reaction conditions and implemented high-throughput unbiased methods for assay interpretation. We tested whether saliva pretreatment could also enable viral detection by conventional reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). Finally, we validated these assays on clinical samples.

RESULTS: The optimized saliva pretreatment protocol enabled analytically sensitive extraction-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 from saliva by colorimetric RT-LAMP or RT-qPCR. In simulated samples, the optimized RT-LAMP assay had a limit of detection of 59 (95% confidence interval: 44-104) particle copies per reaction. We highlighted the flexibility of LAMP assay implementation using 3 readouts: naked-eye colorimetry, spectrophotometry, and real-time fluorescence. In a set of 30 clinical saliva samples, colorimetric RT-LAMP and RT-qPCR assays performed directly on pretreated saliva samples without RNA extraction had accuracies greater than 90%.

CONCLUSIONS: Rapid and extraction-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 from saliva by colorimetric RT-LAMP is a simple, sensitive, and cost-effective approach with broad potential to expand diagnostic testing for the virus causing COVID-19.

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UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 May 11;:. - PMID 32511508

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:67

Enthalten in:

Clinical chemistry - 67(2021), 2 vom: 30. Jan., Seite 415-424

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lalli, Matthew A [VerfasserIn]
Langmade, Joshua S [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xuhua [VerfasserIn]
Fronick, Catrina C [VerfasserIn]
Sawyer, Christopher S [VerfasserIn]
Burcea, Lauren C [VerfasserIn]
Wilkinson, Michael N [VerfasserIn]
Fulton, Robert S [VerfasserIn]
Heinz, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Buchser, William J [VerfasserIn]
Head, Richard D [VerfasserIn]
Mitra, Robi D [VerfasserIn]
Milbrandt, Jeffrey [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory syndrome
COVID-19
Cost-effective
EC 3.4.21.64
Endopeptidase K
High-throughput testing
Journal Article
LAMP
Point-of-care testing
Preventive medicine
RNA, Viral
RT-LAMP
Rapid diagnosis
SARS-CoV-2
Saliva

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Date Completed 02.03.2021

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Print

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 May 11;:. - PMID 32511508

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/clinchem/hvaa267

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316672637