I have been getting sporadic instances of contamination in my LAMP assay. Occasionally one duplicate in two negative controls will appear positive. As only one duplicate is contaminated, this rules out reagents being contaminated. Is it possible for contamination to occur after amplification? i.e. if the negative control is exposed to DNA or amplicons AFTER amplification before the addition of a detection dye? For example if a stock of SYBR dye is contaminated with DNA, can it make a true negative appear positive because of the DNA present, or must the DNA be present before the amplification process? Thanks.

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