期刊
JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS
卷 118, 期 -, 页码 51-56出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2015.08.011
关键词
Bacillus anthracis; Bacteriophage amplification; Lateral flow immunochromatography; Point-of-need diagnostics
资金
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) [W81XWH-07-C-0061]
New, rapid point-of-need diagnostic methods for Bacillus anthracis detection can enhance civil and military responses to accidental or deliberate dispersal of anthrax as a biological weapon. Current laboratory-based methods for clinical identification of B. anthracis require 12 to 120 h, and are confirmed by plaque assay using the well-characterized gamma typing phage, which requires an additional minimum of 24 h for bacterial culture. To reduce testing time, the natural specificity of gamma phage amplification was investigated in combination with lateral flow immunochromatography (LFI) for rapid, point-of-need B. anthracis detection. Phage-based LFI detection of B. anthracis Sterne was validated over a range of bacterial and phage concentrations with optimal detection achieved in as little as 2 h from the onset of amplification with a threshold sensitivity of 2.5 x 10(4) cfu/mL. The novel use of gamma phage amplification detected with a simple, inexpensive LFI assay provides a rapid, sensitive, highly accurate, and field-deployable method for diagnostic ID of B. anthracis in a fraction of the time required by conventional techniques, and without the need for extensive laboratory culture. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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