Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving viable micro-organism
Patent
1994-09-29
2000-04-18
Tsang, Cecilia J.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving viable micro-organism
435 3, 435 4, 435810, 436 64, 436808, 436813, 424 91, C12Q 102, G01N 3348
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active
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ABSTRACT:
A method of detecting malignant or pre-malignant conditions of the cervix, and test kits therefor, involves selecting a fraction of a cervical cell sample consisting predominantly of epithelial cells and determining characteristics indicative of the malignant or pre-malignant conditions therein.
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