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AssigneeBiosensori S.p.A.
InventorsEdoardo Pasero, Carlo Rossetti, Franco Aiolfi
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Method for amperiometrically measuring the bacterial content of liquids in a bioelectrochemical cell wherein the mediator is initially oxidized in the cell, then brought into contact with a capturing system containing the bacteria of the sample, resulting in a first response at the electrodes, and finally brought into contact again with the capturing system after the bacteria present have been killed, producing a second response due to the interfering substances, which is subtracted from the first response. An apparatus is also provided for implementing this method.
Method for measuring the bacterial content of liquids using amperometric means in a bioelectrochemical cell comprising initially oxidizing an electron transfer mediator in the cell, then bringing the mediator into contact with a filter containing the bacteria of a liquid sample, to produce a first response at the electrodes, and finally bringing the mediator into contact again with the filter after the bacteria present have been killed by chemical means to produce a second response due to interfering substances, which is subtracted from the first response to produce data representative of the bacterial content of the sample.
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