Dna Genotek Inc.

Olle Maarten De Bruin

H Chaim Birnboim

Bitapi Ray

Jacques Oscar Everard Niles

Cassandra Kelly-Cirino

Jacques Oscar Niles

The present application is to provide a composition and method for stabilizing and maintaining the viability of hardy microorganisms from sample collection to downstream analysis. In particular, there is a method for preserving viable hardy bacteria, such as, or, in a biological sample, comprising contacting the biological sample with a stabilization composition, wherein the stabilization composition comprises a chelating agent, a denaturing, a salt and has a pH between about 6 and about 11.

Composition and method for stabilizing and maintaining the viability of hardy microorganisms

The present application provides a composition comprising periodates or persulfates for extracting nucleic acid from a microorganism, and a corresponding method of using the composition for nucleic acid extraction. The composition and method are particularly useful in extracting nucleic acid from microorganisms that are generally resistant to standard nucleic extraction techniques, such as, one or more species of thegenus, one or more species of thecomplex, MDR strains of, one or more species of, one or more species of, and other microorganisms with hardy cell walls.

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Ottawa, Canada

Olle Maarten De Bruin