Patents Assigned to Enigma Diagnostics LLC
  • Method for detecting viable cells in a sample by using a virus
    Patent number: 8609375
    Abstract: A method for detecting viable cells such as bacterial cells, within a sample, said method comprising (i) incubating said sample with a virus which is able to infect said cells under conditions which allow said virus to infect and replicate within any such cells which are viable; and (ii) detecting any nucleic acid obtained by replication of the virus in said cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Enigma Diagnostics LLC
    Inventors: David James Squirrell, Martin Alan Lee