Abstract:
A microbiological test array with a generally flat base having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells connected by a microchannel to an open reservoir formed in a top surface generally parallel to the base of the test array. The reservoir has an opening to permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel, to a sacrificial evaporation well having an air vent port adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells.
Abstract:
Rare earth chelate-conjugated oligonucleotides useful in nucleic acid hybridization assays and for generating chelate-labelled probes of any desired sequence are disclosed. The particular class of chelates utilized exhibit an unusually high efficiency of rare earth element capture, correlated with emission of a high level of signal in time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy compared to other structurally related chelate compounds.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method to determine susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of a majority of clinically significant Gram positive organisms. This invention also relates to a mixture of fluorogenic substrates used to detect the growth of Gram positive Bacteria.
Abstract:
Disclosed are substituted aryl-substituted 2,6-dicarboxy pyridine compounds of general formula
wherein Ar represents aryl, n" is an integer equal to the number of available bonding sites on Ar, each of the n" Rs, R' and R" are independently selected from hydrogen; electron-releasing groups including C 1 -C 4 alkoxy, C 1 -C 4 alkyl, amino, dialkylamino, aryl and aryloxy groups; and linking groups; and R * and R** are independently selected from metal ions, hydrogen and C 1 -C 4 alkyl groups. Said compounds are useful precursors for fluorescently detectable molecules comprising a substituted aryl-substituted 2,6-bis[N,N-di(carboxyalkyl)aminoalkyl]pyridine moiety.
Abstract:
Disclosed are substituted aryl-substituted 2,6-dicarboxy pyridine compounds of general formula
wherein Ar represents aryl, n" is an integer equal to the number of available bonding sites on Ar, each of the n" Rs, R' and R" are independently selected from hydrogen; electron-releasing groups including C 1 -C 4 alkoxy, C 1 -C 4 alkyl, amino, dialkylamino, aryl and aryloxy groups; and linking groups; and R * and R** are independently selected from metal ions, hydrogen and C 1 -C 4 alkyl groups. Said compounds are useful precursors for fluorescently detectable molecules comprising a substituted aryl-substituted 2,6-bis[N,N-di(carboxyalkyl)aminoalkyl]pyridine moiety.
Abstract:
Mixing a liquid solution (18) in a container (14) by revolving a pair of magnets (12) in close proximity to and on opposite sides of the container a distance above the bottom of the container causing a magnetic mixing member (16) to rotate in the liquid about the same distance above the bottom of the container.
Abstract:
A random access microbiological analyzer (10) for performing AST and ID tests on samples using on-board inventories of different AST test arrays (12) and different ID test rotors (16) within separate AST and ID incubation and analysis chambers (22, 28).
Abstract:
In an assay for determination of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in a target bacterial strain, the strain is grown in the presence of both a beta-lactamase inducing antibiotic and a beta-lactam indicator antibiotic which kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria unable to hydrolyze beta-lactam antibiotics. Growth, indicative of drug resistance in the target strain, is monitored by detecting a fluorophor released by the enzymatic cleavage of a metabolizable fluorogenic compound.
Abstract:
A cup-like broth container (242) comprising four mutually opposed pairs of connected sidewalls (250) with a protruding rib (248) formed on each of four perpendicularly opposed single sidewalls and four Y-shaped clamping ridges (252) attached to and extending outwardly from a single one of the four sidewalls located between the four sidewalls having a protruding rib.