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7842500 |
Anti-heparan sulfate antibody, method for detection of heparan sulfate, and kit for detection of heparan sulfate
An antibody which reacts with N-acetylheparosan and heparan sulfate that is derived from bovine kidney but does not substantially react with heparan sulfate derived from a murine...
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7771660 |
Electrophoretic interactive spectral methods and devices for the detection and/or characterization of biological particles
Methods for identifying a biological particle in a sample medium include generating an Electrophoretic Quasi-elastic Light Scattering (EQELS) spectrum for the biological particle in the sample...
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7659085 |
Methods and compositions for the simultaneous detection of multiple analytes
Methods and compositions comprising immunoassays for the detection of antigens and antibodies in a sample are described. In particular, the present invention provides assays that are useful for the...
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7582415 |
Rapid detection of replicating cells
The invention enables efficient, rapid, and sensitive enumeration of living cells by detecting microscopic colonies derived from in situ cell division using large area imaging. Microbial...
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7534584 |
Modular compositing-multiple lot screening protocols for detection of pathogens, microbial contaminants and/or constituents
Particular aspects provide a method of sampling, testing and validating test lots (e.g., single-unit production lots), comprising: assembling a plurality of product portions from each of a...
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7470520 |
Method for enterobacter identification
The present invention is generally related to products and methods permitting the identification of Enterobacter species organisms. In addition, the invention provides the capability to...
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7374905 |
Medium composition, method and device for selectively enhancing the isolation of anaerobic microorganisms contained in a mixed sample with facultative microorganisms
The present invention is directed to a medium, broth or agar, and a method of utilizing the same, in order to isolate and/or identify anaerobes from a mixed sample that contains facultative...
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7273719 |
Test media for quantitative or qualitative identification and differentiation of general coliforms, E coli, Aeromonas spp and Salmonella spp materials in a test sample
A test medium and method for detecting, quantifying, identifying and differentiating up to four (4) separate biological materials in a test sample. A test medium is disclosed which allows...
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7150977 |
Plating media for the identification of Salmonella
An isolation plating medium for the identification of Salmonella bacteria in a sample containing a plurality of different bacteria comprising a mixture of a carbohydrate capable of being a...
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7148033 |
Method for detection for total coliforms and E. coli
An improved method for detection of total coliforms and E. coli comprising a broth containing an ingredient that will suppress growth of non-coliform gram negative bacteria, and at least one...
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7122314 |
Methods for detecting vancomycin-resistant microorganisms and compositions therefor
A method for detecting the presence of a vancomycin-resistant microorganism in a biological sample using a single chimeric probe in a cycling probe reaction.
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7018807 |
Method and medium for detecting vancomycin-resistant enterococcus
A microbe-specific medium for detection of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in a test sample within 24 hours and preferably within 18 hours. The testing medium provides a selective growth medium...
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6969593 |
Method for the selective survival or selective growth of a target cell by the use of a conjugate, its use in therapeutics and/or diagnostics and the preparation of said conjugate
The invention is in particular related to a method for the selective survival or selective growth of a target cell comprising the steps of: a) contacting the target cell with a conjugate compound...
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6955886 |
Scintillation proximity assay for the detection of peptidoglycan synthesis
The invention provides a scintillation proximity assay for detecting peptidoglycan synthesis. The assay is especially suitable for high throughput screening of compounds affecting peptidoglycan...
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6905691 |
Vaccines containing attenuated bacteria
The invention relates to a vaccine comprising a bacterium attenuated by a non-reverting mutation in a gene encoding a protein which promotes folding of extracytoplasmic proteins. Such mutations...
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6861247 |
Salmonella secreted proteins and uses thereof
Substantially pure Salmonella secreted proteins (Ssp), the sercetion of which is dependent upon the expession of PrgH; methods of diagnosing Salmonella infection; and live attenuated vaccine...
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6844199 |
Direct detection of bacteria-antibody complexes via UV resonance Raman spectroscopy
A system for the detection of bacteria based on bacteria-antibody complexes. Bacteria attached to antibody are detected with resonance Raman spectroscopy. The bacteria are detected directly in a...
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6797485 |
Mass spectrometry of colonization factors
Disclosed herein are methods for identifying at least one bacterial colonization factor of enterotoxigenic E. coil which comprise the following steps in the following order: 1) obtaining the...
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6787332 |
Test media and quantitative or qualitative method for identification and differentiation of E. coli, general coliforms, salmonella, and aeromonas in a test sample
A test medium and method for detecting, quantifying, identifying and differentiating up to four (4) separate biological materials in a test sample. A test medium is disclosed which allows...
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6783950 |
Method of detecting a microbe in a liquid water sample
The invention relates to a method of determining the presence or absence of a target microbe in a liquid water sample, the method consisting of a) combining a liquid water sample and a powdered...
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6764832 |
Plating media for the presumptive identification of the genus Shigella and the species Shigella sonnei and shigella boydii
A solid growth plating medium in which Shigella organisms will grow and form colonies in the medium, and substantially, other microorganisms are inhibited or their colonies are differentiated from...
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6730496 |
Method of detecting first generation environmental-sourced microbes in an environmentally-derived sample
The invention relates to a method of detecting the presence or absence of a target microbe in a liquid sample, the method comprising: providing a powdered medium having one or more nutrient...
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6617149 |
Method for isolation and identification of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 and plating media for said process
An isolation plating medium for use in processes for the presumptive identification of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 from a sample that also contains other strains of Escherichia coli. The plating...
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6569635 |
Growth state-specific immunofluorescent probes for determining physiological state and method of use
A novel method for examining bacterial growth state is carried out by measuring the levels of conserved cytosolic proteins specific for alternative growth states, using bacterial specific antibody...
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6548309 |
Procedure for assay of liquids containing undissolved solids, semisolids or colloids
In qualitative or quantitative assays which employ a test device comprising a test strip pretreated for detection of a specified target analyte dissolved in a liquid medium, the presence of solid,...
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6517844 |
Compositions and method for immunizing polutry
The present invention is directed to vaccine compositions and methods for immunizing poultry. The vaccine compositions comprise inactivated bacterial organisms which can be administered to the...
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6511819 |
Rapid coliform detection system
A rapid method for detecting the presence or absence of coliform bacteria in a liquid or liquified dairy sample, for example, skimmed milk, lowfat milk, or whole milk. A growth medium containing a...
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6461833 |
Method to detect bacteria
The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the time of response of an assay for a first bacterium, wherein: a) the first bacterium is exposed to infection by phage particles to which...
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6436649 |
Method for detecting and/or quantifying a hapten in a homogeneous phase and device for implementation thereof
The invention discloses a method for detecting and/or quantifying a hapten in a homogeneous phase, comprising the following steps: adding a known quantity of a hapten inhibitor complex to the...
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6428976 |
Rapid identification of microorganisms
A method of determining whether a test microorganism is a known microorganism, involving use of an agent that specifically affects the growth of the known microorganism. The invention also features...
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6391652 |
Immunoassay method and immunoassay kit
An immunoassay method comprising bringing an immobilized phase comprising, at different positions on a water-absorbable base material, at least two first immunity substances capable of specifically...
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6379918 |
Composition, formulae, devices and methods for control of specificity and inclusivity of microorganisms containing closely related antigen epitopes
Compositions, formulae, devices and methods for the detection of target microorganisms, such as by visual immunoprecipitate assay, enzyme linked immunoassay, chemiluminescence, immunoblotting, or...
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6365368 |
Rapid method for the detection and quantification of microbes in water
The present invention concerns methods of testing water for microbe contamination. The methods of the invention comprise supplementing existing methods with assays using specific reagents such as...
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6329166 |
Detection of first generational environmental sourced microbes in an environmentally-derived sample
The presence or absence of a predetermined target first generation environmental sourced microbe in an environmentally derived sample is determined by adding a testing medium to the sample, or vice...
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6306621 |
Membrane filter agar medium for simultaneous detection of total coliforms and E. coli
An improved method for detection of total coliforms and E. coli comprising a broth containing an ingredient that will encourage growth and repair of injured coliforms, buffers to maintain a pH in...
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6210911 |
Rapid Identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7
A method of determining whether a test microorganism is a known microorganism, involving use of an agent that specifically affects the growth of the known microorganism. The invention also features...
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6168924 |
Limulus reaction-activating substance, method for inactivating the substance and measuring its amount, and method for measuring limulus reaction
The presence of endotoxin in the outer membrane of cell wall of a Gram-negative bacteria is used to determine bacterial contamination in a biological product. The amount of endotoxin present in a...
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6165743 |
Culture medium for revealing enterohemorrhagic E. coli bacteria and procedure therefor
The invention concerns a culture medium and a method for revealing enterohemorrhagic E. coli bacteria, particularly serotypes O157 and/or O11, comprising a chromogenic substrate compound of the...
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6159689 |
Methods of capture and assay procedures
Methods of capturing and labeling a species, include attracting magnetically attractable particles to a solid support by magnetic forces, which particles have an affinity for the species,...
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6159683 |
Method of determining stage of sepsis
The invention relates to a method for staging sepsis in a patient by concurrently measuring in a sample of the patient's blood four parameters which are indicative of the stage of sepsis: 1) the...
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6114137 |
Assay using marked microbial host cell strains
An assay is provided for determining the presence of contaminating microbial host cells in a culturing vessel containing a microbial host cell strain that utilizes more than one carbohydrate source...
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6083684 |
Viral products
Bacteriophages of food-contaminating or pathogenic bacteria or the lysins thereof are used to kill such bacteria. Examples include lysins from bacteriophages of Listeria monocytogenes and...
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6063590 |
Membrane filter agar medium containing two enzyme substrates used for the simultaneous detection of total coliforms and E. coli.
An improved method for detection of total coliforms and E. coli comprising placing the target sample in a broth containing an ingredient that will encourage growth and repair of injured coliforms,...
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5976525 |
Method for producing enhanced antigenic enteric bacteria
Methods using in vitro processes are disclosed for inducing or enhancing expression of enteric bacterial antigens or virulence factors. The methods, therefore, produce antigenically enhanced...
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5972641 |
Rapid coliform detection system
A rapid method for detecting the presence or absence of coliform bacteria in a liquid or liquified dairy sample, for example skimmed milk. A growth medium containing a fluorogenic substrate is...
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5968762 |
Method for detecting bacteria in a sample
The invention is a method for detecting the presence of bacteria in a sample. The method of the invention utilizes the steps of (a) admixing a fluorescent conjugate with a sample to be tested for...
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5952188 |
Reusable immobilized microbial composition useful as ready-to-use seed inoculum in BOD analysis
A reusable immobilized microbial composition is formulated. The formulated microbial composition comprises a synergistic mixture of the bacterial strains of Enterobacter cloaca, Citrobacter...
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5935799 |
Biological assay for microbial contamination
A semi-quantitative method for determining the concentration of viable coliforms or E. coli in a liquid is provided. The sample to be tested is mixed with an indicator reagent which includes a...
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5869321 |
Thin film culture plate device containing granulated medium particles
The present disclosure reports a thin film culture plate device including i) a self-supporting, waterproof substrate containing a layer of a unique reconstitutable culture medium made of nutrients...
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5861270 |
Enzymatic method for detecting coliform bacteria or E. coli
A two stage enzymatic method for the detection of coliform bacteria or E. coli wherein bacteria are concentrated on a membrane filter. This filter is placed on a growth medium containing nutrients,...
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