Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving viable micro-organism
Patent
1988-11-29
1991-12-17
Wax, Robert A.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving viable micro-organism
435 38, C12Q 100, C12Q 125
Patent
active
050734881
ABSTRACT:
A rapid method of determining the efficacy of a sterilization cycle, and an indicator adapted to perform such method, comprising subjecting to the sterilization cycle a source of active enzyme having activity which correlates with the viability of a microorganism commonly used to monitor sterilization, and incubating the enzyme source, following the completion of the sterilization cycle, with an effective amount of a substrate system capable of reacting with any residual active enzyme to produce a detectable enzyme-modified product.
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Foltz William E.
Matner Richard R.
Woodson Lewis P.
Boeder Jennie G.
Griswold Gary L.
Kirn Walter N.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
Wax Robert A.
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