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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2018
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Sunny Jiang, Irvine, CA (US);
Hamsa Gowda, Irvine, CA (US);
Xiao Huang, Pasadena, CA (US);
Xunyi Wu, Pasadena, CA (US);
Marc Madou, Irvine, CA (US);
Michael R. Hoffmann, Pasadena, CA (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable pathogen analysis system (PPAS) designed to detect microbial pathogens at the point-of-sample collection. The system comprises a concentration tube used for the concentration of microbes in large volumes of water samples using super absorbent polymer (SAP) beads and a hand-powered centrifuge; and a processing component, which functions as a portable lab-on-a-disc droplet digital nucleic acid amplification system, which integrates DNA extraction, nucleic acid amplification, and post-amplicon analysis in a single unit. The present invention provides a fast, cost-effective, and user-friendly solution for microbial water quality analysis in low-resource settings.