Compositions and methods for control of reactivity between diagnostic reagents and microorganisms
CA 2190109 C · Owner: Scully, Dennis M. · Inventors: Brunelle, Sharon L.; Falbo-Nelson, Maria T.; Scully, Dennis M.
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Compositions, devices, and methods for the detection of target microorganisms, such as by a visual immunoprecipitation assay, where the detection requires the migration of the target, microorganisms (typically a target microorganism-, antibody-detection reagent complex) along a lateral flow membrane of a diagnostic device. The present invention permits such detection by inhibiting the agglutination, or other aggregation, of target microorganisms (and particularly target microorganisms bound to an antibody-detection reagent) while the microorganisms are migrating along the lateral flow membrane.
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- Filed April 28, 1995 and granted March 18, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 28, 2015.
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