Naval Medical Research Center 1 article published in JoVE Immunology and Infection The Development of Lyophilized Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Reagents for the Detection of Coxiella burnetii Hua-Wei Chen1, Wei-Mei Ching1 1Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center We described here a simple loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method using lyophilized reagents for the detection of C. burnetii in patient samples.