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ArticleScientific reports2019

Interfacial Effect-Based Quantification of Droplet Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification for Bacterial Infection.

Tiffany-Heather Ulep, Alexander S Day, Katelyn Sosnowski, Alexa Shumaker, Jeong-Yeol Yoon

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tiffany-Heather UlepDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, United States.
Alexander S DayDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, United States.
Katelyn SosnowskiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-8475
Alexa ShumakerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, United States.
Jeong-Yeol YoonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, United States. jyyoon@email.arizona.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9720-6472
University of Arizona · US

Funding

SOUTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERP30ES006694 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI DEAN BILLHEIMER · 1994 to 2026
$36.7M
Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Training GrantT32HL007955 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI BARTON, JENNIFER KEHLET · 2001 to 2020
$5.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007955NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial infection is a widespread problem in humans that can potentially lead to hospitalization and morbidity. The largest obstacle for physicians/clinicians is the time delay in accurately identifying infectious bacteria, especially their sub-species, in order to adequately treat and diagnose such infected patients. Loop-mediated amplification (LAMP) is a nucleic acid amplification method that has been widely used in diagnostic applications due to its simplicity of constant temperature, use of up to 4 to 6 primers (rendering it highly specific), and capability of amplifying low copies of target sequences. Use of interfacial effect-based monitoring is expected to dramatically shorten the time-to-results of nucleic acid amplification techniques. In this work, we developed a LAMP-based point-of-care platform for detection of bacterial infection, utilizing smartphone measurement of contact angle from oil-immersed droplet LAMP reactions. Whole bacteria (Escherichia coli O157:H7) were assayed in buffer as well as 5% diluted human whole blood. Monitoring of droplet LAMP reactions was demonstrated in a three-compartment, isothermal proportional-integrated-derived (PID)-controlled chip. Smartphone-captured images of droplet LAMP reactions, and their contact angles, were evaluated. Contact angle decreased substantially upon target amplification in both buffer and whole blood samples. In comparison, no-target control (NTC) droplets remained stable throughout the 30 min isothermal reactions. These results were explained by the pre-adsorption of plasma proteins to an oil-water interface (lowering contact angle), followed by time-dependent amplicon formation and their preferential adsorption to the plasma protein-occupied oil-water interface. Time-to-results was as fast as 5 min, allowing physicians to quickly make their decision for infected patients. The developed assay demonstrated quantification of bacteria concentration, with a limit-of-detection at 10

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Nucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesBacteriaBacterial InfectionsEscherichia coli O157HumansPoint-of-Care TestingSensitivity and Specificity

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PMID31270374
PMCPMC6610113
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