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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2003
Ellen J. Baron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Wolf-dieter Engel, Feldafing, DE;
Gerd Haberhausen, Penzberg, DE;
Peter Kaspar, Penzberg, DE;
Andreas M. Kogelnik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ellen J. Baron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Wolf-Dieter Engel, Feldafing, DE;
Gerd Haberhausen, Penzberg, DE;
Peter Kaspar, Penzberg, DE;
Andreas M. Kogelnik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for analyzing the presence of a bacterial pathogen in a clinical sample comprising the steps of (i) at least partially isolating nucleic acid from said sample, characterized in that said nucleic acid is selected from a group consisting of either total nucleic acid, total DNA or total RNA, (ii) quantifying the amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen, and (iii) determining whether said amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen exceeds a first predetermined cut off value.