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Enteric fever represents a significant public health burden in less-developed countries. Therefore, there is a great need for developing an improved diagnostic tool adapted to the demands of poor-resource clinical laboratories in those countries. The current study has developed a reliable loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP)–enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for diagnosis of enteric fever with a minimal equipment dependency. The LAMP–ELISA assay involves direct incorporation of a labeled nucleotide into amplicons during the amplification of the SPA3440 gene, their hybridization to the unique tagged oligonucleotide probes during the LAMP reaction, and finally detection of labeled LAMP amplicons by immunoassay technology. Because the designed oligonucleotide probes target the single-stranded DNA segment within the LAMP amplicons, the probe hybridization stage is performed …