Abstract: There is provided a computer vision based method for extracting features relating to the developmental stages of Trichuris spp. eggs, wherein for the final developmental stages a larva is present inside the egg, said Trichuris spp. eggs having a substantially oblong or elliptical shape with a protruding polar plug at each end, the shape of the Trichuris spp. eggs thereby defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the eggs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 29, 2015
Assignee:
Parasite Technologies A/S
Inventors:
Johan Musaeus Bruun, Jens Michael Carstensen, Christian Moliin Outzen Kapel
Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for storage and development of eggs from helminthic parasites, where the composition further comprises a liquid carrier having a pH value of below 7 at a temperature of from 10C to ambient temperature. The liquid carrier can be sulphuric acid, H2SO4 with a pH in the range of from 0 to 2, and antibiotics can be added. The invention further relates to a method for treating, ameliorating, prophylactic or curative, an autoimmune or allergic disease in an individual, animal or man, using eggs being separated from the composition. The present invention also relates to methods for isolation, embryonation and preservation of eggs of helminthic parasite, and to a method for producing a pharmaceutical composition comprising a helminthic parasite preparation. The helminthic parasite eggs may be from the pig whipworm; Trichuris suis ova (TSO).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2011
Date of Patent:
August 4, 2015
Assignee:
Parasite Technologies A/S
Inventors:
Christian Mollin Outzen Kapel, Allan Roepstorff, Stig Milan Thamsborg
Abstract: There is provided a computer vision based method for extracting features relating to the developmental stages of Trichuris spp. eggs, wherein for the final developmental stages a larva is present inside the egg, said Trichuris spp. eggs having a substantially oblong or elliptical shape with a protruding polar plug at each end, the shape of the Trichuris spp. eggs thereby defining a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the eggs.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 12, 2013
Publication date:
October 31, 2013
Applicant:
PARASITE TECHNOLOGIES A/S
Inventors:
Johan Musaeus Bruun, Jens Michael Carstensen, Christian Moliin Outzen Kapel