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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ralph A Messing, Horseheads, NY (US);
William S Ramsey, Corning, NY (US);
Assignee:
Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1951 / ;
Abstract
Microbial culture device containing a growth medium having incorporated therein a lipophilic fluorescent material and means associated therewith for localizing and identifying the growth of colonies of an unknown microbe, and a known gram positive microbe, and/or a known gram negative microbe. The device can be used to determine whether an unknown microbe sample is gram positive or gram negative by culturing the unknown on the medium and then comparing the fluorescence of the unknown microbes with fluorescence of similarly cultured gram positive and/or gram negative microbes.