METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COLLECTING MYCOBACTERIUM COMPLEX SPECIES FROM THE ORAL CAVITY OF A PATIENT
摘要
This invention relates to a method and device for collecting a Mycobacterium complex species, such Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) from the oral cavities of particularly children and infants. A device is provided which has a distal end and an operative end portion manufactured from a parent polymer which has been functionalised with a chemical compound having an affinity to the Mycobacterium complex species to collect same such that the presence thereof in the sample can be detected. The invention further extends to a method of preparing biological material obtained from such collected sample.
申请公布号
WO2016193918(A1)
申请公布日期
2016.12.08
申请号
WO2016IB53212
申请日期
2016.06.01
申请人
NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY;STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY;UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
发明人
GROBLER, Anne, Frederica;CRONJE, Lizl;VILJOEN, Hendrik