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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:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Trudil, Reisterstown, MD (US);
Assignee:
New Horizons Diagnostics Corp., Columbia, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/02 ; C12Q 1/04 ; C12Q 1/06 ; C12Q 1/00 ; C12M 1/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/02 ; C12Q 1/04 ; C12Q 1/06 ; C12Q 1/00 ; C12M 1/34 ;
Abstract
A method for the use of a phage associated lysing enzyme for the detecting the presence and determining the quantity of bacteria present in or on a wide variety of substances is described. The total concentration of microbes is determined by adding or incorporating a phage associated lytic agent to a disposable test system device with the luminescent reagents luciferin and luciferase, and introducing the disposable test system into a luminometer that can read the luminescence. Other systems can be used with the lytic enzymes for the quantitative and qualitative determination for the presence of bacteria.