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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 90, Issue 12, Pages 7221-7229Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b00185
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- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health [R01EB022630]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [TL1TR000422]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship
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Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) provide high diagnostic accuracy for infectious diseases and quantitative results for monitoring viral infections. The majority of NAATs require complex equipment, cold chain dependent reagents, and skilled technicians to perform the tests. This largely confines NAATs to centralized laboratories and can significantly delay appropriate patient care. Low-cost, point-of-care (POC) NAATs are especially needed in low-resource settings to provide patients with diagnosis and treatment planning in a single visit to improve patient care. In this work, we present a rapid POC NAAT with integrated sample preparation and amplification using electrokinetics and paper substrates. We use simultaneous isotachophoresis (ITP) and recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) to rapidly extract, amplify, and detect target nucleic acids from serum and whole blood in a paper-based format. We demonstrate simultaneous ITP and RPA can consistently detect 5 copies per reaction in buffer and 10 000 copies per milliliter of human serum with no intermediate user steps. We also show preliminary extraction and amplification of DNA from whole blood samples. Our test is rapid (results in less than 20 min) and made from low-cost materials, indicating its potential for detecting infectious diseases and monitoring viral infections at the POC in low resource settings.
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