Sample Treatment with Trypsin for RT-LAMP COVID-19 Diagnosis

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in a global health emergency. Given its rapid spread and high number of infected individuals, a diagnostic tool for a rapid, simple, and cost-effective detection was essential. In this work, we developed a COVID-19 diagnostic test, that incorporates a human internal control, based on the Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (RT-LAMP). When working with synthetic SARS-CoV-2 RNA, the optimized RT-LAMP assay has a sensitivity of 10 viral copies and can be detected by fluorescence in less than 15 min or by the naked eye in 25 min using colorimetric RT-LAMP. To avoid the RNA extraction step, a pre-treatment of the sample was optimized. Subsequently, a validation was performed on 268 trypsin treated samples (including nasopharyngeal, buccal, and nasal exudates) and amplified with colorimetric RT-LAMP to evaluate its sensitivity and specificity in comparison with RT-qPCR of extracted samples. The validation results showed a sensitivity and specificity of 100% for samples with Ct ≤ 30. The rapid, simple, and inexpensive RT-LAMP SARS-CoV-2 extraction-free procedure developed may be an alternative test that could be applied for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 or adapted to detect other viruses present in saliva or nasopharyngeal samples with higher sensitivity and specificity of the antibody test.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Biology - 12(2023), 7 vom: 23. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

García-Sorribes, Soraya [VerfasserIn]
Lara-Hernández, Francisco [VerfasserIn]
Manzano-Blasco, Iris [VerfasserIn]
Abadía-Otero, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Albert, Eliseo [VerfasserIn]
Mulet, Alba [VerfasserIn]
Briongos-Figuero, Laisa Socorro [VerfasserIn]
Gabella-Martín, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Torres, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Signes-Costa, Jaime [VerfasserIn]
Navarro, David [VerfasserIn]
Martín-Escudero, Juan-Carlos [VerfasserIn]
García-García, Ana-Bárbara [VerfasserIn]
Chaves, Felipe Javier [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Colorimetry
Journal Article
RNA extraction-free
RT-LAMP
SARS-CoV-2
Trypsin

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Date Revised 31.07.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/biology12070900

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360082033