Rapid method for determining efficacy of a sterilization cycle and rapid read-out biological indicator
CA 2002902 C · Owner: Foltz, William E. · Inventors: Matner, Richard R.; Foltz, William E.; Woodson, Lewis P.
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A rapid method of determining the efficacy of a sterilization cycle, and an indicator adapted to perform such method, comprising subjecting to the sterilization cycle a source of active enzyme having activity which correlates with the viability of a microorganism commonly used to monitor sterilization, and incubating the enzyme source, following the completion of the sterilization cycle, with an effective amount of a substrate system capable of reacting with any residual active enzyme to produce a detectable enzyme-modified product.
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- Filed November 14, 1989 and granted October 30, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2009.
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