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In this work, we evaluated the effect of pyrophosphate (PPi) on the oxidase activity of CeO2 NPs. The presence of PPi was found to enhance the oxidase activity of CeO2 NPs, with enhanced colorimetric signals. This particular effect was then used for the colorimetric detection of target nucleic acids. Overall, the PPi-enhanced colorimetric signals of CeO2 NPs oxidase activity were suppressed by the presence of the target nucleic acids. Compared with previous studies using CeO2 NPs only, our proposed system significantly improved the signal change (ca. 200%), leading to more sensitive and reproducible colorimetric analysis of target nucleic acids. As a proof-of-concept study, the proposed system was successfully applied to the highly selective and sensitive detection of polymerase chain reaction products derived from Klebsiella pneumoniae. 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