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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2002
Suman Preet Singh Khanuja, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Suchi Srivastava, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Tiruppadiripuliyur Ranganathan Santha Kumar, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Ajit Kumar Shasany, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a rapid, sensitive, simple, and cost-effective spectrophotometric method of detecting and quantifying mycolic acid in a mycolic acid-fuschin dye complex with absorbance maxima ranging between 490-500 nm in the presence of various test compounds, for screening mycolic acid biosynthesis inhibitors useful as anti-microbial agents and a diagnostic kit thereof comprising basic fuschin dye in the concentration ranging between 0.1-1.0 gm/100 ml, phenol and 95% ethanol in the ratio ranging between 1:4 to 2:1 (v/v), and phenol and distilled water in the ratio ranging between 1:14 to 1:25.