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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher D Herold, Del Mar, CA (US);
Michael O'Hagan, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 34 ; 435 29 ; 435-4 ;
Abstract
A rapid, sensitive method for the detection of M. tuberculosis. A sample suspected of containing M. tuberculosis is extracted, derivatized and analyzed for the presence of two particular characterizing compounds specific to M. tuberculosis. One preferred analytical method involves a fuzzy matching process.