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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1997
Lucy Ellen DesJardin, Little Rock, AR (US);
Mac Donald Cave, Little Rock, AR (US);
Kathleen Davis Eisenach, Little Rock, AR (US);
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides primers which can be used for,complex-specific detection of &agr;-antigen DNA in a diagnostic assay performed on clinical specimens or in a culture-confirmation assay following growth of the organism in vitro. These primers and probes can also be employed in a reverse transcriptase-mediated amplification system for,complex &agr;-antigen mRNA. Such an assay provides a means by which to determine the viability of,complex organisms either in clinical specimens or when grown in culture. Also described are methods for the detection of the products of amplification with a radiolabeled probe by chemiluminescent assay or fluorescence polarization analysis.