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US9758820B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 1, 2008 |
| Grant date | Sep 12, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 10, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC12Q2600/16
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Methods and containers are provided for identifying a species, illustratively a bacterial species. Illustrative methods comprise amplifying various genes in the nucleic acid from the bacterial species in a single reaction mixture using pairs of outer first-stage primers designed to hybridize to generally conserved regions of the respective genes to generate a plurality of first-stage amplicons, dividing the reaction mixture into a plurality of second-stage reactions, each using a unique pair of second-stage primers, each pair of second-stage primers specific for a target bacterial species or subset of bacterial species, detecting which of the second-stage reactions amplified, and identifying the bacterial species based on second-stage amplification. Methods for determining antibiotic resistance are also provided, such methods also using first-stage primers for amplifying genes known to affect antibiotic resistance a plurality of the second-stage reactions wherein each pair of second-stage primers specific for a specific gene for conferring antibiotic resistance.
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