Devices, systems and methods for surface sampling
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United States of America Patent
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Nov 24, 2020
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Oct 20, 2016
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Apr 18, 2016
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Apr 17, 2015
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Abstract
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which relate to using wet foam elution for removal of particles from swabs and wipes. This allow users to capture particles from surfaces and recover them by elution into small sample volumes for subsequent detection for human clinical, veterinary, food safety, pharmaceutical, outbreak investigations, forensics, biodefense and bioterrorism response, environmental monitoring, and other applications where collection of samples from surfaces and humans or animals is required. More specifically, the swabs or wipes are used to collect samples in the standard ways that commercially available swabs and wipes are in use today; from, for instance, food preparation surfaces in food plants, from production equipment in pharmaceutical facilities, for collection of dry powders during bioterrorism event response, and for collection of clinical samples such as nasal, throat, nasopharyngeal, and wounds.
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- 2016 Application Filing Year
- B01L Class
- 1516 Applications Filed
- 1056 Patents Issued To-Date
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