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Bacterial DNA Fingerprint Detection
(Technion patent no. 526)
The invention is of a fast and highly accurate system for identifying the presence of bacteria,
based on DNA sequence. The technology in capable of identifying bacterial strains, and assigns an
identity number to bacterial strain based on a Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR). This technology
can accurately, identify bacteria quite parallel to the human forensic database that the FBI builds
up for criminal identification. The development of the bacterial DNA fingerprinting technology
involves a unique combination of computer programming and molecular biology. The technology
was originally designed to detect E. coli and distinguish between its different strains, was adapted
to Listaeria and Cholera and can be easily adaptable to any other bacteria. This new technology
can be developed into an automated system for process-line testing.
The product based on this new technology is a system for Automatic Detection and
“Fingerprinting” of Bacterial Pathogens. It can be used to automatically detect the presence of
bacteria in food, water, as well as
in biological and medical samples.
The precise identification of the
bacterial strain can be of crucial
importance
effective
in
determining
therapeutic
epidemiology,
strategies,
detection
of
biological contaminants in water,
consumer products, and biological
samples.
The identification technology may be combined with any DNA detection technology. Such
combinations were demonstrated to yield fast and accurate results as exemplified in the figure
above.
IP status: USPTO Issued patent