Developing a multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay (LAMP) to determine severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) and scrub typhusopen access
- Authors
- Jang, Woong Sik; Lim, Da Hye; Choe, Young Lan; Nam, Jeonghun; Moon, Kyung Chul; Kim, Chaewon; Choi, Minkyeong; Park, Insu; Park, Dae Won; Lim, Chae Seung
- Issue Date
- Feb-2022
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Citation
- PLoS ONE, v.17, no.2
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PLoS ONE
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 2
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2021.sw.kumedicine/60970
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0262302
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
1932-6203
- Abstract
- Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) and scrub typhus are endemic zoonotic diseases that pose significant public health threats in East Asia. As these two diseases share common clinical features, as well as overlapping disease regions, it is difficult to differentiate between SFTS and scrub typhus. A multiplex reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay was developed to detect large segments and GroES genes for SFTS virus (SFTSV) and Orientia tsutsugamushi (OT). The performance of the RT-LAMP assay was compared and evaluated with those of commercial PowerChek (TM) SFTSV real-time PCR and LiliF (TM) TSUTSU nested PCR for 23 SFTS and 12 scrub typhus clinical samples, respectively. The multiplex SFTSV/OT/Internal control (IC) RT-LAMP assay showed comparable sensitivity (91.3%) with that of commercial PowerChek (TM) SFTSV Real-time PCR (95.6%) and higher sensitivity (91.6%) than that of LiliF (TM) TSUTSU nested PCR (75%). In addition, the multiplex SFTSV/OT RT-LAMP assay showed 100% specificity and no cross-reactivity for blood from uninfected healthy patients and samples from patients infected with other fever viruses. Thus, the multiplex SFTSV/OT/IC RT-LAMP assay could serve as a useful point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SFTS and scrub typhus.
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