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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1995
Alison O'Brien, Bethesda, MD (US);
Susanne Ward Lindgren, Portland, OR (US);
Liyanage Parakrama Perera, Rockville, MD (US);
Nancy A Strockbine, Lithonia, GA (US);
Angela Ruth Melton-Celsa, Sterling, VA (US);
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
A rapid, sensitive, non-radioactive diagnostic kit for the direct detection of both Shiga-like toxin, type I, and Shiga-like toxin, type II, produced by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli in food and clinical samples. This diagnostic kit is comprised of a monoclonal antibody capable of detecting Shiga-like toxin, type I, and a monoclonal antibody capable of detecting Shiga-like toxin, type II, together with a chemiluminescing detection reagent with a sensitivity enhancer.