Journal
ACS SENSORS
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 841-848Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01206
Keywords
pathogenic bacteria detection; LAMP; droplet microfluidics; biosensor; nucleic acid amplification
Funding
- NSF NNCI program [ECCS31542081]
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Nucleic acid amplifications, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), are very beneficial for diagnostic applications, especially in the context of bacterial or viral outbreaks due to their high specificity and sensitivity. However, the need for bulky instrumentation and complicated protocols makes these methods expensive and slow, particularly for low numbers of RNA or DNA templates. In addition, implementing conventional nucleic acid amplification in a high-throughput manner is both reagent- and time-consuming. We bring droplet-based microfluidics and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) togetehr in an optimized operational condition to provide a sensitive biosensor for amplifying extracted RNA templates for the detection of Salmonella typhimurium (targeting the invA gene). By simultaneously performing similar to 10(6) LAMP-assisted amplification reactions in picoliter-sized droplets and applying a new mathematical model for the number of droplets necessary to screen for the first positive droplet, we study the detection limit of our platform with pure culture and real samples (bacterial contaminated milk samples). Our LAMP-assisted droplet-based microfluidic technique was simple in operation, sensitive, specific, and rapid for the detection of pathogenic bacteria Salmonella typhimurium in comparison with well-established conventional methods. More importantly, the high-throughput nature of this technique makes it suitable for many applications in biological assays.
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