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Process and kit for detecting microbial metabolism

  • US 5,164,301 A
  • Filed: 06/22/1990
  • Issued: 11/17/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A process for detecting microbial metabolism, said process including the steps of:

  • combining a sample solution to be analyzed for metabolizing microorganisms, microbial growth medium, a nontoxic concentration of a first dye having an absorbance spectrum which in the presence of growing microorganisms changes in response to by products of metabolism released by the microorganism into the medium, and a nontoxic concentration of a second dye having an excitation or emission spectrum which overlaps with one of the changed or unchanged absorbance spectra of the first dye, neither dye being metabolized directly by the microorganisms; and

    observing either no change in the intensity of fluroescence emission of the second dye indicating the absence of metabolizing microorganisms in the sample or a change in the intensity of the fluorescence emission indicating the presence of metabolizing microorganisms in the sample.

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