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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peggy W Cichanowicz, Pittsford, NY (US);
Robert T Belly, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 34 ; 435 29 ; 435 31 ; 435 38 ; 435 39 ; 435805 ; 435810 ;
Abstract
Rapid differentiation between viable fungi (for example, yeast) and viable bacteria is accomplished with certain polyene antibiotics which are used in combination with a compound which is normally reducible by both the fungi and the bacteria. The antibiotics selectively and substantially inhibit the reduction of the reducible compound by the fungi but do not affect the reducing capacity of the bacteria. The particular antibiotics useful are polyenes which selectively affect the function of the cytoplasmic membrane of fungi.