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US 12,517,128 B2Granted
Sample collection and analysis
AssigneeIDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
InventorMatthew Howard Myles
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Abstract
Management of the health status of an animal colony using a plurality of blood collection cards and the analysis of dried blood from members of the colony that has been collected on the cards. Members of the colony may be removed from the colony as a result of the analysis.
Claims24
A method of detecting one or more infectious agents in a population of rodents, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving a plurality of blood collection materials from a blood collection apparatus from a user responsible for a population of rodents, wherein each individual blood collection material of the plurality of blood collection materials comprises:
- a collection area having an absorbent material, the collection area having dried rodent blood from a member of the population of rodents;
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- an identification portion spaced apart from the collection area and comprising a unique sample identification;
- (b) separating the individual blood collection materials, wherein separating the individual blood collection materials comprises separating a first blood collection material from a second blood collection material, wherein the first blood collection material and the second blood collection material are separated by a perforation, and wherein separating the first blood collection material from the second blood collection material comprises:
- (i) separating a first identification portion of the first blood collection material from a second identification portion of the second blood collection material;
- and (ii) separating a first collection area of the first blood collection material from a second collection area of the second blood collection material;
- (c) extracting the dried rodent blood from the plurality of blood collection materials;
- (d) conducting an immunoassay for analyzing the extracted blood for a presence or absence of at least one antibody that binds to the one or more infectious agents, thereby detecting the one or more infectious agents in the rodent population;
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- (e) reporting results of the detection of the one or more infectious agents to the user.
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A method of detecting one or more infectious agents in a population of rodents, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving a segmented sample collection material from a blood collection apparatus, the segmented sample collection material comprising two or more individual sample collection materials separable from one another, wherein the two or more individual sample collection materials each comprise a sample collection area and an identification portion, wherein the identification portion is spaced apart from the sample collection area;
- (b) separating the two or more individual sample collection materials from one another, wherein separating the two or more individual blood collection materials comprises separating a first blood collection material from a second blood collection material, wherein the first blood collection material and the second blood collection material are separated by a perforation, and wherein separating the first blood collection material from the second blood collection material comprises:
- (i) separating a first identification portion of the first blood collection material from a second identification portion of the second blood collection material;
- and (ii) separating a first collection area of the first blood collection material from a second collection area of the second blood collection material;
- (c) extracting dried rodent blood from the sample collection area of each of the two or more individual sample collection materials, wherein the dried rodent blood is from one or more members of a population of rodents;
- (d) conducting an immunoassay for analyzing the extracted blood for a presence or absence of at least one antibody that binds to the one or more infectious agents, thereby detecting the one or more infectious agents in the rodent population;
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- (e) reporting results of the detection of the one or more infectious agents.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.