Evaluation of reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the detection of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in clinical laboratories : A single-center study

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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an acute infectious disease prevalent in East Asia with a high mortality rate (5%-30%). Reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP), a rapid nucleic acid-based diagnostic technique, is a useful alternative for the clinical diagnosis of SFTS, particularly in resource-limited hospitals or rural clinics in SFTS virus-endemic regions. However, the actual clinical sensitivity and specificity of RT-LAMP remain unclear. This study evaluated the field application of RT-LAMP. This prospective field study included 130 patients with laboratory-confirmed SFTS from Yantai, Shandong Province, China. Two sets of RT-LAMP primers were validated, and one set of RT-LAMP assays was optimized for field detection. Nucleic acids of serially collected serum/plasma samples were identified using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and RT-LAMP. In laboratory tests, we optimized the detection time of primer set 2 for the RT-LAMP to 60 min. Notably, the onsite testing of 279 plasma samples from patients with SFTS revealed that the sensitivity and specificity of the test were 81.9% and 96.3%, respectively. We also analyzed samples with different durations of the disease, and our study showed that the sensitivity of RT-LAMP detection at the beginning of admission was 89.92%. Univariate analysis showed that the detection rate of RT-LAMP was similar to that of RT-qPCR in the first 5 days of the disease course and was lower than that of RT-qPCR on Days 6 and 14-15 of the disease course. The positive detection rate in patients aged ≥ 65 years was significantly higher than that in younger age groups. RT-LAMP is a simple, suitable, and rapid clinical detection method of SFTS onsite screening. It is more suitable for screening patients in the early stages of the disease and analyzing samples obtained from patients aged ≥ 65 years before the 6th day of the disease course.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:95

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Journal of medical virology - 95(2023), 12 vom: 06. Dez., Seite e29258

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tian, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuanyuan [VerfasserIn]
Geng, Shuying [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jianxin [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Wenjuan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Yanli [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yuanni [VerfasserIn]
Song, Chuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zhihai [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical assessment
Journal Article
Laboratory diagnosis
RNA, Viral
RT-LAMP
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SFTS
Virus detection

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Date Completed 07.12.2023

Date Revised 10.01.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jmv.29258

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365454656