Virus detection device and virus detection method
AssigneeTokyo Electron Limited
InventorsAkitake Tamura, Kaoru Fujihara, Misako Saito
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Abstract
A virus detection device includes a diffusion unit configured to diffuse a virus in a gas as an inspection target into an aqueous solution containing a fluorescent antibody specifically adsorptive to the virus by bringing the gas into contact with the aqueous solution and configured to adsorb the fluorescent antibody to the virus in the gas; an atomization unit configured to atomize the aqueous solution and generate a mist group of the aqueous solution in which the gas is diffused; a fluorescence measuring unit configured to measure a fluorescence intensity of the mist group; and an air current generator configured to form an air current flowing toward the fluorescence measuring unit from the atomization unit.
Claims5
A virus detection device comprising:
- a diffusion unit configured to diffuse a gas into an aqueous solution containing a fluorescent antibody specific for a virus, by bringing the gas into contact with the aqueous solution and letting the fluorescent antibody bind the virus in the gas;
- an atomization unit configured to atomize the aqueous solution and generate a mist of the aqueous solution in which the gas is diffused;
- a fluorescence measuring unit configured to measure a fluorescence intensity of the mist with and without viruses;
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- an air current generator configured to form an air current flowing toward the fluorescence measuring unit from the atomization unit.
A virus detection method comprising:
- diffusing a gas into an aqueous solution containing a fluorescent antibody specific for a virus, by bringing the gas into contact with the aqueous solution so that the fluorescent antibody binds to the virus in the gas;
- atomizing the aqueous solution and generating a mist of the aqueous solution in which the gas is diffused;
- measuring a fluorescence intensity of the mist;
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- comparing the measured fluorescence intensity with the fluorescence intensity of a mist without viruses,
- wherein the presence of a virus in the gas can be detected automatically on a real time basis if the measured fluorescence intensity is greater than the fluorescence intensity of a mist without viruses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.