Patents Assigned to Bacter Healthcare S.A.
  • Dialysis system having automated effluent sampling and peritoneal equilibration test
    Patent number: 8449495
    Abstract: A dialysis system includes at least one dialysis fluid pump actuator, a disposable cassette including at least one pump chamber operable with the at least one pump actuator, the disposable cassette further including a plurality of fluid ports configured to be connected fluidly to a plurality of fluid containers, and a processor programmed to cause the at least one pump actuator to operate the at least one pumping chamber to selectively move effluent dialysis fluid to a drain container or to a sample container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Baxter Healthcare Inc., Bacter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Hopping, Steve J. Lindo, Meir Dahan, Robert W. Childers
  • Method for the production of bacterial toxins
    Patent number: 7790185
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for the enhanced production of bacterial toxins in large-scale cultures. Specifically, methods and compositions for reducing bacterial toxin expression inhibitors are providing including, but not limited to, addition of toxin expression inhibitor binding compounds, culture media having reduced concentrations of toxin inhibitor metabolic precursors and genetically modified toxogenic bacteria lacking enzymes required to metabolize the toxin inhibitor metabolic precursors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Bacter Healthcare S.A.
    Inventors: Milan S. Blake, John A. Bogdan, Jr., Javier Nazario-Larrieu