Fig. 8From: Lack of specificity associated with using molecular beacons in loop mediated amplification assaysVariation and separation between replicates in quantification. Fluorescent output from 35Sp 5nt STEM MB or SYTO9 with 35Sp LAMP amplification of a serial dilution of plasmid template. Template dilutions: 10-1 dark blue, 10-2 orange, 10-3 light green, 10-4 purple, 10-5 red and NTC in grey. For each concentration of the molecular beacon the Ct value is derived from a set threshold of 0.05 (for the SYTO9 assay this value is 0.5). See Additional file 1: Figure S2 for 2.0 and 4.0 micromolar MB assaysBack to article page