US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Aug. 12 for "Methods and compositions for detecting virulent and avirulent Escherichia coli strains" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,100, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Methods and compositions for detecting virulent and avirulent Escherichia coli strains" was invented by Prashant Singh (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for detecting virulent Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) strains O26, O103, O121, and O111 in a biological sample comprising the steps of: (i) enriching the bacterial concentration of the biological sample to result in an enriched sample; (ii) isolating DNA from said enriched biological sample; and (iii) detecting virulent...