Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Diagnosis of Major Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Settings

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2015-07-09
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Major Infectious Diseases (MIDs) continue to pose major global health-care challenges in 2015, particularly in resource-limited settings. Alongside the recent global Human Immu-nodeficieny Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficieny Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic, there has been a marked resurgence in fatalities related to Malaria and Leishmaniasis in Lower-to-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). With the recent development of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP), researchers are hoping to bring rapid and inexpensive point-of-care diagnostics, based on nucleic acid amplification, to LMIC settings. We ex-plored the possibility of a portable, low-cost LAMP-based diagnostic device targeting HIV, Malaria, and Leishmaniasis, for use in resource-limited settings, in an idealized proof-of-concept study. Design and build an inexpensive functional prototype with the potential to quantify disease severity that demonstrates the feasibility of this diagnostic tool for the desired application was the primary outcome; however, much work remains to be done in order to optimize the method to a reliable and repeatable clinical tool.
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Mintchev, P. (2015). Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Diagnosis of Major Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Settings (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26788