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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 82, Issue 4, Pages 591-596Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0369
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- European community [015379]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research WOTRO Science [W96-210]
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Here we describe a generic, reverse transcriptase-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay, for the identification of Leishmania species from clinical samples. LAMP is an isothermal reaction recently developed as a point-of-care diagnostic tool. Primers were designed in the conserved region of the 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene; amplification was visualized by the pre-amplification addition of fluorescent detection reagent (FDR) and a simple UV lamp. By using a reverse-transcriptase step, the system detected infections between 10 and 100 parasites per mL. The assay was tested on a range of nucleic acid extracts from Leishmania species, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients from Sudan, and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) patients from Suriname. The sensitivity of RT-LAMP from the blood of VL patients was 83% (N = 30) compared with microscopy of bone-marrow and lymph-node aspirates; for CL patients the observed sensitivity was 98% (N = 43). The potential to use LAMP as a diagnostic tool for leishmaniasis is discussed.
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