- Patent Title: Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing system based on bacterial immobilization using gelling agent, antibiotic diffusion and tracking of single bacterial cells
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Application No.: US14816071Application Date: 2015-08-03
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Publication No.: US10676776B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Sunghoon Kwon , Yong-Gyun Jung , Jung Il Choi , Hun Jong Na
- Applicant: SNU R & DB FOUNDATION , QUANTA MATRIX CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: QUANTAMATRIX INC.
- Current Assignee: QUANTAMATRIX INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: STIP Law Group, LLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@42e307a8
- Main IPC: C12Q1/18
- IPC: C12Q1/18 ; C12N11/04 ; B29C45/00 ; B29L31/00

Abstract:
A testing method is disclosed. The testing method includes: providing a mixture solution of a gelling agent and a microbe to a gelling device; solidifying the mixture solution to form a solid thin film in which the microbe is immobilized; supplying a bioactive agent to the solid thin film and allowing the bioactive agent to diffuse into the solid thin film; and imaging the individual responses of the single microbial cells to the bioactive agent, and determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the bioactive agent based on the analysis of the images to obtain AST results.
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