Rapid Biosensor Systems Limited

Nicol John Murray

Elaine Marie McCash

Edward Colby

Matthew Emmanuel Milton Storkey

Matthew Emmanuel Storkey

Gavin Vashon Wheeler

James Neil Stewart

Antony Glauser

Elaine Marie Mccash

Edward Grellier Colby

A sample collection apparatus which measures biological samples and can be used to provide the early detection of respiratory diseases, for example tuberculosis induced by the pathogen. The sample collection apparatus has a sample collection unit and a corresponding complementary reader unit. The collection unit collects a sample exhaled from the user through a collection vessel with an optical interrogation region. The sample is spread on the inside of the vessel over the interrogation region and subsequently analyzed. The test results are displayed via the reader unit.

Sample collection apparatus

In a biological measurement system () for collecting one or more samples of sputum and/or mucus from a patient in the form of an aerosol and for analyzing said one or more samples to detect whether or not pathogens are present therein, the one or more samples are in solution within the system () and detection of the pathogens is performed using a fluorescently labeled assay. The system () is adapted to detect bacterial pathogens using evanescent-wave spectroscopy preferably by using a single-reflective technique. The one or more samples are advantageously provided to the system () in aerosol form. However, the system () is capable of being adapted for use in analyzing samples in liquid form. Methods of analyzing said one or more samples in the system () are described.

Biological measurement system

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Nicol John Murray