An integrated microfluidic system for live bacteria detection from human joint fluid samples by using ethidium monoazide and loop-mediated isothermal amplification

Shu Ling Chen, Wen Hsin Chang, Chih Hung Wang, Huey Ling You, Jiunn Jong Wu, Ting Hang Liu, Mel S. Lee, Gwo Bin Lee*

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Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is one of the severe complications of prosthetic joint replacement. Delayed PJI diagnosis may anchor bacteria in periprosthetic tissues, and removal of the prosthesis might be inevitable. The diagnosis of PJI depends on the identification of microorganisms by standard microbiological cultures or more advanced molecular diagnostic methods for detection of bacterial genes. However, these methods are relatively time-consuming, labor-intensive and not human error-free. Moreover, it is challenging to distinguish live from dead bacteria by using DNA-based molecular diagnostics since bacterial DNA will be remained in the tissue even after the death of the bacteria. In this work, an integrated microfluidic system has been developed to perform the entire molecular diagnostic process for the PJI diagnosis in a single chip. We combined the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) with ethidium monoazide (EMA) in an integrated microfluidic system to identify live bacteria with reasonable sensitivity and high specificity. All the diagnostic processes including bacteria isolation, cell lysis, DNA amplification and optical detection can be automatically performed on the integrated microfluidic system by using a compact custom-made control system. The integrated system can accommodate four primers complementary to six regions of the target genes and improve the detection limit by using LAMP. The limit of detection in this multiple EMA-LAMP assay could be as low as 5 fg/reaction (~1 CFU/reaction) when choosing an optimized primer set as we demonstrated in mecA gene detection. Thus, the developed system for PJI diagnosis has great potential to become a point-of-care device.

原文English
文章編號87
期刊Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
21
發行號5
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出版狀態Published - 1 5月 2017

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