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Review
. 2022 Feb 23:3:100120.
doi: 10.1016/j.crmicr.2022.100120. eCollection 2022.

Recent advances in loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for rapid and efficient detection of pathogens

Nupur Garg  1 , Farhan Jalees Ahmad  1 , Sudeshna Kar  2
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Review

Recent advances in loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for rapid and efficient detection of pathogens

Nupur Garg et al. Curr Res Microb Sci. .

Abstract

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method has been demonstrated to bea reliable and robust method for detection and identification of viral and microbial pathogens. LAMP method of amplification, coupled with techniques for easy detection of amplicons, makes a simple-to-operate and easy-to-read molecular diagnostic tool for both laboratory and on-field settings. Several LAMP-based diagnostic kits and assays have been developed that are specifically targeted against a variety of pathogens. With the growing needs of the demanding molecular diagnostic industry, many technical advances have been made over the years by combining the basic LAMP principle with several other molecular approaches like real-time detection, multiplex methods, chip-based assays.This has resulted in enhancing thethe sensitivity and accuracy of LAMP for more rigorous and wide-ranging pathogen detection applications. This review summarizes the current developments in LAMP technique and their applicability in present and future disease diagnosis.

Keywords: Detection; Diagnosis; LAMP; Point-of-care; Rapid.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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