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US 8,945,945 B1Granted
Sample collection and analysis
AssigneeIDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
InventorMatthew Howard Myles
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Abstract
Management of the health status of an animal colony using a plurality of blood collection cards and the analysis of dried blood from members of the colony that has been collected on the cards. Members of the colony may be removed from the colony as a result of the analysis.
Claims21
A method of determining a presence or absence of an infectious disease in a population of rodents, the method comprising:
- (a) providing instructions to a user responsible for a population of animals comprising the following:
- (i) draw blood from an individual rodent;
- (ii) apply the blood to one of a plurality of blood collection cards;
- (iii) allow the blood sample to dry on the collection card;
- (iv) repeat steps i, ii, and iii at least once to provide the plurality of blood collection cards spotted with blood from a plurality of members from the population of rodents;
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- (v) transport the plurality of collection cards to a laboratory as a single unit;
- (b) receiving the plurality of collection cards as a single unit from the user,
- (c) extracting dried blood from the cards;
- (d) conducting an immunoassay for analyzing the extracted blood for a presence or absence of at least one antibody for an infectious agent indicative of an infectious disease, thereby determining the presence or absence of the infectious disease in the population;
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- (e) reporting the results of the presence or absence of the infectious disease to the user.
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