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Streptococcus agalactiae  ( S. agalactiae ) is an important pathogen that can lead to neonatus and mother infection. The current existing techniques for the identification of  S. agalactiae  are limited by accuracy, speed and high-cost .  Therefore, a new multiple cross displacement amplification (MCDA) assay was developed for test of the target pathogen immediately from vaginal and rectal swabs. MCDA primers screening were conducted targeting  S. agalactiae pcsB  gene, and one set of MCDA primers with better rapidity and efficiency was selected for establishing the  S. agalactiae- MCDA assay. As a result, the MCDA method could be completed at a constant temperature of 61 °C, without the requirement of special equipment. The detection limit is 250 fg (31.5 copies) per reaction, all  S. agalactiae  strains displayed positive results, but not for non- S. agalactiae  strains. The visual MCDA assay detected 16 positive samples from 200 clinical specimen, which were also detected positive by enrichment/qPCR. While the CHROMagar culture detected 6 positive samples. Thus, the MCDA assay is prefer to enrichment/qPCR and culture for detecting  S. agalactiae  from clinical specimen. Particularly, the whole test of MCDA takes about 63.1 min, including sample collection (3 min), DNA preparation (15 min), MCDA reaction (45 min) and result reporting (6 s). In addition, the cost was very economic, with only US$ 4.9. These results indicated that our  S. agalaciae -MCDA assay is a rapid, sensitive and cost-efficient technique for target pathogen detection, and is more suitable than conventional assays for an urgent detection, especially for 'on-site' laboratories and resource-constrained settings.

Visual multiple cross displacement amplification for the rapid identification of S. agalactiae immediately from vaginal and rectal swabs