Patents Assigned to PBD BIOTECH LIMITED
  • Mycobacteria detection using bacteriophages
    Patent number: 11845996
    Abstract: A method for testing for target Mycobacteria in a reaction mixture comprising the steps of: providing a reaction mixture; admixing a bacteriophage with the reaction mixture under conditions suitable to allow the bacteriophage to infect any target Mycobacteria present in the reaction mixture; allowing time for the bacteriophage to lyse infected live target Mycobacteria; and analysing in said reaction mixture DNA from the lysed Mycobacteria to identify a signature DNA sequence that occurs in the target Mycobacteriumspedes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PBD BIOTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Catherine Rees, Benjamin Swift