Convenient detection of HPV virus in a clinical sample using concurrent rolling circle and junction probe amplifications.

Herein we show that two isothermal amplification strategies, rolling circle amplification and junction probe strategy, can be used in tandem in the same tube under isothermal conditions to detect HPV16 in clinical cervical swabs. It was discovered that the prior treatment of the clinical sample with a cocktail of restriction endonucleases (REAses) to digest the genomic DNA facilitated the isothermal detection assay.