NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY;STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY;UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
发明人:
Anne Frederica GROBLER,Lizl CRONJE,Hendrik VILJOEN
申请号：
US15578842
公开号：
US20180296196A1
申请日:
2016.06.01
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
This invention relates to a method and device for collecting a Mycobacterium complex species, such Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) from the oral cavities of particularly children and infants. A device is provided which has a distal end and an operative end portion manufactured from a parent polymer which has been functionalised with a chemical compound having an affinity to the Mycobacterium complex species to collect same such that the presence thereof in the sample can be detected. The invention further extends to a method of preparing biological material obtained from such collected sample.
