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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1980
James H Carter, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);
Stephen L Ledis, Hialeah, FL (US);
Harold R Crews, Miami, FL (US);
Coulter Electronics, Inc., Hialeah, FL (US);
Abstract
An isotonic multipurpose blood diluent, and a method for use of this diluent with a weak lysing reagent system which is especially suitable for routine enumeration of traditional hemogram values, and also the determination of lymphoid-myeloid populations of leukocytes, particularly in automatic particle counting systems. This blood diluent is capable of affording accurate, reproducible test results. It is an osmotically balanced aqueous solution of preselected pH containing Procaine hydrochloride for maintaining erythrocyte morphology during operation, N-(2-acetamido)iminodiacetic acid (ADA) as a blood cell stabilizing agent, and bacteriostatic agents including sodium 1-hydroxypyridine-2-thione, dimethylolurea and chlorhexidene diacetate which, together with the ADA, allow preferential determination of myeloid-lymphoid leukocytes, and other hematological values. The lysing agent is a mixture of an aqueous solution of at least one quaternary ammonium salt having surface active properties, and an alkali metal cyanide.