Method for Rapidly Determining Effective Sterilization, Deimmunization, and/or Disinfection
AssigneeONEighty'C Technologies Corporation
InventorTheresa L. O'Keefe
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Abstract
A method for rapidly determining effective sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection of equipment and/or supplies by a device. The method includes providing a defined surrogate protein having a predetermined sequence representative of an infectious agent potentially contaminating the equipment and/or the supplies to be sterilized, deimmunized, and/or disinfected by the device. The defined surrogate protein having the predetermined sequence is subjected to sterilization, deimmunization, or disinfection. The effectiveness of the sterilization deimmunization, or disinfection is rapidly determined by determining if the defined surrogate protein has been destroyed.
Claims15
A method for determining effective sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection of equipment and/or supplies by a device, the method comprising:
- providing a defined surrogate protein having a predetermined sequence defined by a sequence which at least about 95% homologous to the sequence
- (SEQ ID NO. 2)
- 10 20 30 40
- MTLEKTYYEV TMEECTHQLH RDLPPTRLWG YNGLFPGPTI
- 50
- EVKRNENVYV KWMNNLPSTH FLPIDHTIHH SDSQHEEPEV
- KTVVHLHGGV TPDDSDGYPE AWFSKDFEQT GPYFKREVYH
- YPNQQRGAIL WYHDHAMALT RLNVYAGLVG AYIIHDPKEK
- RLKHHHHHH
- representative of an infectious agent potentially contaminating the equipment and/or the supplies to be sterilized, deimmunized, and/or disinfected by the device;
- subjecting the defined surrogate protein having the predetermined sequence to sterilization, deimmunization, or disinfection;
- and
- determining the effectiveness of the sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection by determining if the defined surrogate protein having the predetermined sequence has been destroyed, wherein the sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection occurs when the defined surrogate protein has been fragmented to yield a negative result in a protein analysis procedure.
A method for determining effective sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection of equipment and/or supplies by a device, the method comprising:
- providing a defined surrogate protein having a predetermined sequence defined by the sequence:
- (SEQ ID NO. 2)
- 10 20 30 40
- MTLEKTYYEV TMEECTHQLH RDLPPTRLWG YNGLFPGPTI
- 50
- EVKRNENVYV KWMNNLPSTH FLPIDHTIHH SDSQHEEPEV
- KTVVHLHGGV TPDDSDGYPE AWFSKDFEQT GPYFKREVYH
- YPNQQRGAIL WYHDHAMALT RLNVYAGLVG AYIIHDPKEK
- RLKHHHHHH
- representative of an infectious agent potentially contaminating the equipment and/or the supplies to be sterilized, deimmunized, and/or disinfected by the device;
- subjecting the defined surrogate protein having the predetermined sequence to sterilization, deimmunization, or disinfection;
- and
- determining the effectiveness of the sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection by determining if the defined surrogate protein having the predetermined sequence has been destroyed, wherein the sterilization, deimmunization, and/or disinfection occurs when the defined surrogate protein has been fragmented to yield a negative result in a protein analysis procedure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.