Method and apparatus for detecting the presence of microbes and determining their physiological status
CA 2402575 C · Owner: Microbiosystems, Limited Partnership · Inventors: Lloyd, Christiopher R.; Powers, Linda S.
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Method and apparatus for the detection of microbes in liquids in air and on non-living surfaces in which samples are exposed to electromagnetic radiation of specific energies capable of exciting various metabolites cofactors and cellular and spore components with the microbial cells to be sampled (and more specifically the excited metabolites cofactors and/or other cellular components) contained therein emit fluorescence that can be measured. The signal from the background and scattered excitation signals is removed from the fluorescence signals of the microbial components the relative fluorescent signals of the intrinsic microbial components are required to lie within physiological ranges …
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- Filed September 10, 2002 and granted November 8, 2011. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 10, 2022.
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