Vicam L.p.

Thomsen J Hansen

Steven R Tannenbaum

Gerald N Wogan

Thomas L Benjamin

David M Livingston

Barbara Jackson

Joan Chen-Wu

Franz Fiedler

Calvert L Green

An assay method is provided to easily and quickly detect the presence of organisms capable of being cultured, such as bacteria, characterized by antibody capture of the organism of interest by use of specialized magnetic beads, incubation of the captured cells to form colonies; removal of material from the colonies with a colony lift membrane; and detection of the colony material on the membrane sheet by use of labeled antibodies, PCR or nucleic acid probes.

Assay method for detecting presence of bacteria

Assay method for detecting the presence of bacteria

An assay method is provided to quickly detect the presence of Listeria strains in samples, characterized by the use of antibodies to selectively capture the peptidoglycan and teichoic acid components of the listeriae bacterial cell wall.

Assay method for detecting listeria

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Thomsen J Hansen