Diagnostic accuracy of LAMP versus PCR over the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection

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OBJECTIVE: Reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) has been validated to diagnose several viral infections. However, its diagnostic accuracy in detecting SARS-CoV-2 in real-life clinical settings remains unclear. This study aimed to determine the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of RT-LAMP compared to reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) over the disease course of COVID-19.

METHODS: A total of 124 nasopharyngeal swab samples obtained from 24 COVID-19 patients were tested by RT-LAMP and RT-qPCR. Sensitivities and specificities of RT-LAMP compared with RT-qPCR were analyzed as a function of time from onset.

RESULTS: Up to the 9th day after onset, the RT-LAMP had a positivity of 92.8%, and the sensitivity and specificity compared with RT-qPCR was 100%. However, after the 10th day after onset, the positivity of RT-LAMP decreased to less than 25%, and the concordance of positivity between the two methods was below 60%. The limit of detection of RT-LAMP was 6.7 copies/reaction.

CONCLUSIONS: Until the 9th day after the onset of symptoms, RT-LAMP had the same diagnostic accuracy as RT-qPCR. These findings suggest that RT-LAMP can be used as a diagnostic tool for COVID-19 as an alternative to RT-qPCR in the acute symptomatic phase of COVID-19.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:107

Enthalten in:

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 107(2021) vom: 26. Juni, Seite 195-200

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Inaba, Masato [VerfasserIn]
Higashimoto, Yuki [VerfasserIn]
Toyama, Yoko [VerfasserIn]
Horiguchi, Tomoya [VerfasserIn]
Hibino, Masaya [VerfasserIn]
Iwata, Mitsunaga [VerfasserIn]
Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi [VerfasserIn]
Doi, Yohei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
RT-LAMP
RT-qPCR
Sensitivity
Specificity

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Date Completed 02.07.2021

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2021.04.018

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM324169035