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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Julius-maximilians-universitaet Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, DE;
Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, DE;
Abstract
Described herein is a diagnostic chewing gum for identifying the presence of pathogens detectable via the mouth, in particular pathogens residing in nasal, oropharyngeal, laryngeal, oesophageal, ocular and/or pulmonal tissue of a user, more particularly pathogens selected from among a virus, bacterium, protozoa, prion, fungus or a combination thereof. The inventive diagnostic chewing gum includes a base material or particles () embedded and/or attached to the base material and an element (-), like e.g. a releasable flavor molecule, attached to the base material and/or the particles, for the generation of a change in the chewing gum directly detectable by the user, wherein the element (-) generates the change upon direct or indirect contact with a marker () which is released by the pathogens, or, in case of a virus or prion, by the cellular structure hosting it.