Patents Assigned to Enigma Diagnostics Ltd
  • Method for detecting viable cells in a sample by using a virus
    Patent number: 8071337
    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; (ii) detecting any nucleic acid obtained by replication of the virus in said cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Enigma Diagnostics Ltd
    Inventors: David James Squirrell, Martin Alan Lee