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US 2004/0166550 A1Published application
Bio-gateway
OwnerBrian M. Sullivan, Denes L. Zsolnayinventors
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Abstract
Bioagent surveillance of airline passengers is accomplished by having the passenger walk through a gateway (1) to be exposed to a stream of air (3) that sweeps away any bioagents exhaled by the passenger and/or struck from the passenger's clothing. The swept air, including any bioagents, is collected (5, 7) and tested (9) for the presence of any of a predefined list of bioagents; and the presence of a bioagent displayed (10).
Claims6
A method of non-intrusively detecting the presence of any of a predetermined group of bioagents on or in a person, comprising the steps of:
- applying an airstream to the person for sweeping bioagents exhaled by the person or which are present on the clothing of the person downstream;
- collecting at least a portion of said airstream from downstream;
- and
- testing said portion for the presence of any of said predetermined group of bioagents.
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