Method for Growing Bacterial Cells

Technology Description:

The invention is a complex growth supplement for bacterial media used to induce and/or maintain differentiation and viability of bacterial cell culture. The technology can be used to grow bacterial cells, especially enteric bacteria such as Salmonella enterica, which may be needed to produce vaccines, and to develop detection test kits.  Rapid and reliable detection of Salmonella serotypes is important for determining the presence of Salmonella in food and animals, such as chickens used for egg production.  Standard methods for Salmonella detection are often not sensitive enough to consistently detect the presence of Salmonella in all cases.  Other specific uses of this technology would be for identifying pathogens for which there is currently no dependable assay. 

Biotechnology companies developing treatments and methods for reducing or preventing pathogens in foods could use this technology.  This can also be used by companies that make media for food borne detection.

No foreign rights are available.

Reference:

Please refer to USPN 5,902,742, "Complex Growth Supplement for Maintenance of Bacterial Cell Viability and Induction of Bacterial Cell Differentiation," which issued on May 11, 1999.

Inventors:

Jean Guard Petter USDA, ARS, SAA Athens, GA (706) 546-3446 / Fax: (706) 546-3161 jgpetter@seprl.usda.gov

Kimberly D. Ingram USDA, ARS, SAA Athens, GA (706) 546-3436 / Fax: (706) 546-3161