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ArticleBiosensors2021

Portable and Label-Free Quantitative Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LF-qLamp) for Reliable COVID-19 Diagnostics in Three Minutes of Reaction Time: Arduino-Based Detection System Assisted by a pH Microelectrode.

Mario Moisés Alvarez, Sergio Bravo-González, Everardo González-González, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago

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Article in Biosensors, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mario Moisés AlvarezCentro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-9131-5344
Sergio Bravo-GonzálezCentro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6929-0040
Everardo González-GonzálezCentro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6588-5856
Grissel Trujillo-de SantiagoCentro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey 64849, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-9230-4607
Tecnológico de Monterrey · MX

Funding

Baur Family (Baur Endowment Chair in Nanotechnology) 0020240I03Fundación FEMSA Identification of SARS-CoV-2 in salivaNovus, Tecnológico de Monterrey Grant ID- N19-122
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) has been recently studied as an alternative method for cost-effective diagnostics in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Recent reports document that LAMP-based diagnostic methods have a comparable sensitivity and specificity to that of RT-qPCR. We report the use of a portable Arduino-based LAMP-based amplification system assisted by pH microelectrodes for the accurate and reliable diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 3 min of the amplification reaction. We show that this simple system enables a straightforward discrimination between samples containing or not containing artificial SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the range of 10 to 10,000 copies per 50 µL of reaction mix. We also spiked saliva samples with SARS-CoV-2 synthetic material and corroborated that the LAMP reaction can be successfully monitored in real time using microelectrodes in saliva samples as well. These results may have profound implications for the design of real-time and portable quantitative systems for the reliable detection of viral pathogens including SARS-CoV-2.

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Coronavirus Nucleocapsid ProteinsCOVID-19HumansMicroelectrodesMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesPhosphoproteinsPoint-of-Care SystemsReaction TimeRNA, ViralSalivaSARS-CoV-2Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Proteinsnucleocapsid phosphoprotein, SARS-CoV-2PhosphoproteinsRNA, ViralamplificationCOVID-19diagnosticmicroelectrodespoint-of-careqLAMPSARS-CoV-2

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