Quantitative detection of specific nucleic acid sequences using lambdoid bacteriophages linked by oligonucleotides to solid support

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PATENT NO 5679510
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08368870

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The present invention provided compositions, methods and kits for detection and quantitation of pathogenic organisms. The composition of the invention is an oligonucleotide probe comprising a bacteriophage covalently linked to one site on an oligonucleotide probe complementary to a conserved region of a pathogenic organism. At a second site, the oligonucleotide probe is linked to a matrix. The oligonucleotide probe contains a region complementary to one strand of a restriciton endonuclease recognition site or an oligoribonucleotide moiety. The number of pathogenic organisms present in a biological fluid sample may be quantitated in accordance with the method of the invention by combining the composition of the invention with the sample, allowing hybridization to occur. Hybridization generates a DNA-RNA hybrid, and by adding the appropriate nucleolytic enzyme capable of cleaving DNA-RNA hybrids; bacteriophage will be released for measurement. The kit of the invention provides components which allow the method of the invention to be performed.

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PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE17 QUINCY STREET CAMBRIDGE MA 02138

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Lin, Edmund C C Boston, MA 5 63
Ray, Bryan L Burlington, MA 5 57

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