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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 03, 1995
Thomas L Benjamin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joan Chen-Wu, Brookline, MA (US);
Thomsen Hansen, Brookline, MA (US);
Barbara Jackson, Roslindale, MA (US);
David Livingston, Brookline, MA (US);
Steven Tannenbaum, Framingham, MA (US);
Gerald Wogan, Belmont, MA (US);
Vicam, LP, Sommerville, MA (US);
Abstract
An assay method is provided to easily and quickly detect the presence of organisms capable of being cultured, such as bacteria, characterized by antibody capture of the organism of interest by use of specialized magnetic beads, incubation of the captured cells to form colonies; removal of material from the colonies with a colony lift membrane; and detection of the colony material on the membrane sheet by use of labeled antibodies, PCR or nucleic acid probes.