UbiNAAT : a multiplexed point-of-care nucleic acid diagnostic platform for rapid at-home pathogen detection

The COVID-19 pandemic increased demands for respiratory disease testing to facilitate treatment and limit transmission, demonstrating in the process that most existing test options were too complex and expensive to perform in point-of-care or home scenarios. Lab-based molecular techniques can detect viral RNA in respiratory illnesses but are expensive and require trained personnel, while affordable antigen-based home tests lack sensitivity for early detection in newly infected or asymptomatic individuals. The few home RNA detection tests deployed were prohibitively expensive. Here, we demonstrate a point-of-care, paper-based rapid analysis device that simultaneously detects multiple viral RNAs; it is demonstrated on two common respiratory viruses (COVID-19 and influenza A) spiked onto a commercial nasal swab. The automated device requires no sample preparation by the user after insertion of the swab, minimizing user operation steps. We incorporated lyophilized amplification reagents immobilized in a porous matrix, a novel thermally actuated valve for multiplexed fluidic control, a printed circuit board that performs on-device lysis and amplification within a cell-phone-sized disposable device. Reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) products are visualized via fluorescent dyes using a modified cell phone, resulting in detection of as few as 104 viral copies per swab across both pathogens within 30 minutes. This integrated platform could be commercialized in a form that would be inexpensive, portable, and sensitive; it can readily be multiplexed to detect as many as 8 different RNA or DNA sequences, and adapted to any desired RNA or DNA detection assays.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Lab on a chip - 24(2024), 3 vom: 30. Jan., Seite 492-504

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiang, Kevin P [VerfasserIn]
Bennett, Steven [VerfasserIn]
Heiniger, Erin K [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Sujatha [VerfasserIn]
Yager, Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Nucleic Acids
RNA, Viral
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 31.01.2024

Date Revised 29.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1039/d3lc00753g

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366554425