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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:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
May. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biomerieux, 69280 Marcy-L'Etoile, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/20 ; G06F 9/455 ; G06N 7/00 ; C12Q 1/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/20 ; G06F 9/455 ; G06N 7/00 ; C12Q 1/18 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a method for analyzing results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests of micro-organisms, the test consisting in summarily identifying which species the micro-organism belongs to and measuring the minimum inhibitory concentrations (CMI) of several antimicrobial agents for said micro-organism. The method uses a database classifying the micro-organism species and the resistance mechanism to various antimicrobial agents, and containing, for each species and each resistance mechanism, parameters characteristic of the frequency distribution of minimum inhibitory concentrations for a group of antimicrobial agents.