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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
May. 14, 2020
Labtechs Inc., Toyama, JP;
Hideki Niimi, Toyama, JP;
Kazushige Sugie, Toyama, JP;
Isao Kitajima, Toyama, JP;
Tomohiro Ueno, Toyama, JP;
Atsushi Matsui, Toyama, JP;
Abstract
A method of pretreating a blood sample for measuring ATP of a pathogenic microorganism in blood, comprising: preparing a pellet of platelets and the pathogenic microorganism from the blood sample; and subjecting the pellet of platelets and the pathogenic microorganism to the following steps (A) to (C) in any order (including multiple simultaneous steps). A method of pretreating a cultured blood sample, wherein the method is a simplified method, does not comprise the following step (A), and comprises the steps (B) and (C) only simultaneously performed. (A) digesting cell membrane proteins of the platelets with a protease; (B) swelling the platelets in a hypotonic solution; and (C) disrupting cell membranes of the platelets with a detergent solution under a condition of suppressing an effect on the pathogenic microorganism.