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Direct Blood Dry LAMP System Detects Malaria Species

By LabMedica International staff writers
Posted on 09 Feb 2017
Plasmodium falciparum is thought to be the most prevalent among Plasmodium species and although this species has been well investigated epidemiologically, non-P. More...
falciparum malaria infections have been rather neglected because of their less severe clinical symptoms and difficulties of diagnosis.

Molecular diagnostic tests are highly sensitive methods to detect malaria infection even at very low parasitemia levels. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is an alternative molecular method, which requires neither expensive machines nor a sophisticated laboratory. Although LAMP is more user-friendly, it still needs burdensome blood sample preparation.

Scientists at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine collected human blood DNA samples from 74 residents from a malaria endemic area in eastern Zambia. These malaria dry-LAMPs were optimized for field or point-of-care operations, and evaluated in the field at a malaria endemic area in Zambia with 96 human blood samples. A malaria conventional rapid diagnostic test (RDT) that immunologically detects and differentiate P. falciparum (Pf) and non-P. falciparum (non-Pf) species, was also used.

To determine the sensitivities and specificities, results obtained by the on-site LAMP diagnosis were compared with those by the nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nucleotide sequencing of its product on an ABI 3130 capillary sequencer. For the LAMP reaction positive samples exhibited a bright fluorescent green color under a transilluminator, and two independent observers recorded the result.

The team reported that the dry LAMPs showed the sensitivities of 89.7% for Pf and 85.7% for non-Pf, and the specificities of 97.2% for Pf and 100% for non-Pf, with purified blood DNA samples. The direct blood LAMP diagnostic methods, in which 1 μL of anticoagulated blood were used as the template, showed the sensitivities of 98.1% for Pf, 92.1% for non-Pf, and the specificities of 98.1% for Pf, 100% for non-Pf. The prevalences of P. falciparum, P. malariae and P. ovale in the surveyed area were 52.4%, 25.3% and 10.6%, respectively, indicating high prevalence of asymptomatic carriers in endemic areas in Zambia.

The authors conclude that the malaria the assays, known as CZC-LAMPs, showed high sensitivity and specificity to both P. falciparum and non-P. falciparum. These malaria CZC-LAMPs provide new means for rapid, sensitive and reliable point-of-care diagnosis for low-density malaria infections, and are expected to help update current knowledge of malaria epidemiology, and can contribute to the elimination of malaria from endemic areas. The study was published on January 13, 2017, in the journal Parasites &Vectors.


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