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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2004
Malford E. Cullum, Grayslake, IL (US);
Paul Hine, Holt, MI (US);
Lloyd G. Simonson, Spring Grove, IL (US);
Chun N. Shih, East Lansing, MI (US);
Diane R. Bienek, Lindenhurst, IL (US);
Sukjoon Park, Germantown, MD (US);
James C. Ragain, Jr., Great Lakes, IL (US);
Linda A. Lininger, Grayslake, IL (US);
Malford E. Cullum, Grayslake, IL (US);
Paul Hine, Holt, MI (US);
Lloyd G. Simonson, Spring Grove, IL (US);
Chun N. Shih, East Lansing, MI (US);
Diane R. Bienek, Lindenhurst, IL (US);
Sukjoon Park, Germantown, MD (US);
James C. Ragain, Jr., Great Lakes, IL (US);
Linda A. Lininger, Grayslake, IL (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The inventive subject matter relates to a competitive method for estimating the concentration in a sample of aprotein or antibody thereof selected from the group consisting of protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF) and edema factor (EF). The method may employ the use of Fluorescence Polarization, FLT or FRET. The competitive methods are capable of detecting a target protein within 5 minutes within the range of 0.1 to 10.0 nM. The methods provide for the rapid detection and quantitation of bacteria, bacterial antigen or antibody in culture media or broth of growing cultures of bacteria, includingby fluorescent methods.