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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen C Wardlaw, Old Saybrook, CT (US);
Assignees:
Wardlaw Partners, L.P., Lyme, CT (US);
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352887 ; 4352877 ; 4352883 ; 4352884 ;
Abstract
A disposable cassette for testing the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotic for a target microorganism is provided. The cassette includes a body, a sheet of microorganism growth medium, and a sensible reagent. The sensible reagent, which is incorporated into the sheet of growth medium, includes an antibiotic and a marker, and the marker has a signal with a magnitude proportional to its concentration.