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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
May. 27, 1997
Show-Chu Wong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sylvia Khoo, Newark, CA (US);
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (US);
Abstract
Cyanide-free reagents for the determination of hemoglobin and leukocytes present in a blood sample contain an aqueous solution of at least one quaternary ammonium salt, preferably selected from the group of alkyltrimethylammonium salts, alkyldimethylbenzylammonium salts or alkylpyridium salts consisting of tetradecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (TTAB), dodecyltrimethyl ammonium chloride, cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, hexadecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide and benzalkonium chlorides, and hydroxylamine salts, especially hydrochloride, sulfate and phosphates and other acid salts. The method involves mixing the reagent with a diluent- diluted blood sample, presenting it to an absorbance spectrophotometer and measuring the resulting optical density as an indicator of hemoglobin concentration. This cyanide-free reagent could be used solely for hemoglobin determinations, or , it can also be used in leukocyte counting and sizing using hematology instrumentation.