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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
Edward Francis Farina, Oxford, PA (US);
Samuel Garfield Ferguson, Jr., Bear, DE (US);
Peter Louis Gebrian, Wilmington, DE (US);
Frank Stephen Krufka, Kirkwood, PA (US);
John Charles Mazza, Newark, DE (US);
Nicholas Michael Shmel, Jr., Elkton, MD (US);
Dade Behring Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Abstract
A microbiological test array with a generally flat base having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells connected by a microchannel to an open reservoir formed in a top surface generally parallel to the base of the test array. The reservoir has an opening to permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel, to a sacrificial evaporation well having an air vent port adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells.