Detector and Method for Detection of H. Pylori
OwnerAnastasia Rigasinventor
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Abstract
An inexpensive, portable, hand held, point-of-care, non-invasive breath-analyzer for the detection of H. Pylori in adults and children by measuring ammonia in breath using a polyaniline-carbon nanotube sensor.
Claims14
A detector for detecting H. Pylori, comprising a polyaniline (PANI)-carbon nanotube composite having unlabeled urea as a substrate which detects the presence of ammonia in breath, which thereby detects the presence of H. Pylori.
A method of detecting H. Pylori, comprising using a polyaniline (PANI)-carbon nanotube composite having unlabeled urea as a substrate which detects the presence of ammonia in breath, which thereby detects the presence of H. Pylori.
A detector for detecting the presence of ammonia in breath, comprising:
- a hand-held portable housing;
- a sensor in the housing for detecting the presence of ammonia in a concentration sufficiently low to detect, from a user's breath, the presence of H. Pylori;
- an electronic circuit connected to the sensor for providing an output representative of the concentration of ammonia detected;
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- an output display connected to the electronic circuit for displaying a visual signal in response to the output indicating the concentration of ammonia detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.