DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ONE OR MORE TARGET ANALYTES IN A SAMPLE USING SPATIALLY LOCALIZED ANALYTE REPRODUCTION

摘要

An assembly for use in visually or photometrically detecting one or more liv e target microbial organism analyte(s) in a sample of a material which is suspected to contain the target analyte(s), said assembly comprising: a) a sample container; b) a growth-supporting medium in said sample container, said medium being operati ve to support metabolic replication of said target analyte(s) so as to enable said target analyte(s) to form target analyte colonies in or on said medium, and said medium being a medium which restricts intra-medium migration of target analyte colonies which form in or on said medium; and c) one or more labeled target analyte- specific material(s) (LASM(s)) which are homogeneously dispersed throughout said growth-supporting medium and which LASM(s) migrate within said growth- supporting medium toward target analyte colonies which form in or on said growth-supporting medium so as to differentially highlight said target analyte colonies.