Patents Assigned to MICROBECAPTURE, LLC
  • Methods of Detecting Influenza Virus
    Publication number: 20140272942
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of detecting the presence of influenza virus in a sample while minimizing false positives due to presence of one or more other pathogens in the sample, the method including measuring the enzymatic activity of neuraminidase (NA) in the sample under one or more differentiating conditions selected from the group consisting of pH, binding to anti-NanA antibody, size exclusion, hemagglutinin (HA) binding, chemical inhibition, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: MICROBECAPTURE, LLC, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    Inventors: Alison A. Weiss, Karen Melissa Gallegos Villalobos, David Ralph