A reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay was developed to rapidly detect foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype C (FMDV C). By testing 10-fold serial dilutions of FMDV C samples, sensitivity of the FMDV C RT-LAMP was found to be 10 times higher than that of conventional reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). No cross-reactivity with A, Asia 1, or O FMDV or swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV) indicated that FMDV C RT-LAMP may be an exciting novel method for detecting FMDV C.
Animals ; Foot-and-Mouth Disease/*diagnosis ; Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus/genetics ; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques/*methods/veterinary ; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/veterinary ; Reverse Transcription/genetics ; Sensitivity and Specificity