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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2002
Roger N. Piasio, Cumberland Foreside, ME (US);
Madeline Wareing, Cape Elisabeth, ME (US);
Roger N. Piasio, Cumberland Foreside, ME (US);
Madeline Wareing, Cape Elisabeth, ME (US);
Binax, Inc., Portland, ME (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to modifying rapid immunochromatographic ('ICT') tests for the detection of characteristic carbohydrate antigens of bacteria that are known to be causative of otitis media and respiratory diseases in children under the age of approximately 12 years. The test modifications involve either (1) reducing the total amount of antibodies to the carbohydrate antigen employed in each test, (2) adding at least one fixed 'scrub' line located just prior to the capture line in the sample flow path to the prepared ICT test strip to “scrub” out an identical amount of target antigen from all bodily fluid test samples obtained from both colonized but otherwise healthy children and diseased children, or (3) combinations of (1) and (2).