Polyethylene glycol modified LAMP assay enables sensitive and specific clinical detection of varicella-zoster virus
Lei Zhang, Jun Tian, Wenjie Fang, Bin Xu, Weinan Guo, Saiping Lv, Li Yang · 2025
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Description
A rash virus that sleeps in nerves and wakes as shingles needs a fast, true test, and the warm bath test in use can fire on the wrong marks. Lei Zhang and co-authors tune that bath in a 2025 study with a slick that crowds the mix. Crowds press loose marks out while true marks still breed.
One dose of the slick was picked: blanks stayed blank, and true breeds kept their pace. The tuned bath caught the virus at a tenth of the old floor. A ward set of half spiked and half clean ran the tuned bath clean with the gold test, shot for shot. The old bath missed one and faked four. The slick is a cheap fix, the team say.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lei Zhang, Jun Tian, Wenjie Fang, Bin Xu, Weinan Guo, Saiping Lv, Li Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |