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US 9,500,643 B2Granted
Ectoparasite detection
AssigneeSRI International
InventorsRajeev Vaidyanathan, Joseph Perrone, Ellen Beaulieu, Scott Fields
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Abstract
Ectoparasite infestation of a substrate like bedding is detected by contacting a sample from the substrate with a polyclonal ectoparasite antibody generated from a whole ectoparasite immunogen, under conditions wherein the antibody specifically binds ectoparasite antigen in the sample.
Claims8
A method of detecting an ectoparasite antigen, comprising:
- contacting a sample with a polyclonal antibody generated from an immunogen comprising an extract of a whole ectoparasite, under conditions wherein the antibody is capable of specifically binding to an ectoparasite antigen;
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- detecting whether the antibody binds to an ectoparasite antigen in the sample, wherein binding of the antibody indicates the presence of an ectoparasite antigen in the sample.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.