Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample. This invention is useful for detecting bacterial or viral agents in a sample, and is able to detect nucleic acids from a broad variety of, e.g., bacteria, rather than only one or a few different bacteria at a time.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample. This invention is useful for detecting bacterial or viral agents in a sample, and is able to detect nucleic acids from a broad variety of, e.g., bacteria, rather than only one or a few different bacteria at a time.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to devices, systems and methods that enable the detection of low copy numbers of bacterial polynucleotides in a sample without having to use multiple species specific primer sequences.

Abstract: A novel diagnostic system for rapidly, non-invasively and inexpensively differentiating sputum from saliva. The disclosed methods utilize a test strip or stick assay, or other similar assays, for detecting the presence of leukocyte esterase which correlates to the presence of sputum in a patient sample.

Abstract: A method for diagnosing HSV infections in human or non-human patients which involves intravenously administering to the patient a non-invasively assayable ligand-labelled anti-viral drug, wherein the drug is a compound which is phosphorylated bby the HSV-induced thymadine kinase present in HSV-infected cells to a phosphorylated assayable ligand-labelled compound which cannot diffuse from within the infected cells and then non-invasively assasying the presence or absence of the accumulated phosphorylated compound present therein.A pharmaceutical composition in intravenously administrable form and adapted for the diagnosis of HSV infection which is a mixture of a non-invasively assayable ligand-labelled anti-viral drug and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor.