Piezoelectric cell growth biosensing method using polymer-metabolic product complex interactions

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PATENT NO 5135852
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07384813

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The invention relates to a piezoelectric biosensor device and also to a method and a system utilizing a piezoelectric biosensor device for detecting metabolic growth requirements, antibiotic responses, and the specific bacterial products of microorganisms. When a microorganism is grown in an appropriate nutrient medium containing a metabolic product responsive polymer, metabolic products of the organism acidify the medium and precipitate a polymer metabolic product complex which deposits or accumulates on the surface of a piezoelectric biosensor device. The mass change on the surface of the device resulting from this deposit produces a change in the resonant frequency of the piezoelectric biosensor device which can be used to determine the growth and type of microorganism.

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  • E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ebersole, Richard C Wilmington, DE 36 1108
Foss, Robert P Hockessin, DE 17 150
Ward, Michael D Newark, DE 66 2662

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