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Table 24.2 Patents on the diagnosis of human infectious diseases employing PBPs as
fluorochromes
Disease/diagnostic parameters
Patents-source/country and number
(A) General diagnostics
Microbial infections
US 6649356, US 7875426, JP3336406 (E),
CN103131760 (E), IN 201617035849, IN
7254/CHENP/2009
Sepsis in infants
US 5830679
Septicemia
CN101246163 (E)
Quantification of pathogens in blood
US 8795633
Detection of localized infection by imaging
the infiltration of inflammatory cells
IN 4497/KOLNP/2009
Bacterial and viral pathogens by acute
inflammation
IN 201817043067
Detection of any pathological condition by
human leukocyte antigen (HLA)—G
expression
IN 201817047794
Hand-Food-and-Mouth disease
CN101629214 (E)
Tick borne pathogens
CN 103173567
(B) Diagnostics of bacterial pathogens
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection
US 5716829
Multidrug resistant P. aeruginosa
CN104313166 (E)
Mycobacterial infection
JP 2003-534810
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
CN101216491 (E), IN 201717037365, IN
3761/KOLNP/2008, IN 624/KOLNP/2011
Monitoring of tuberculosis upon therapy
US 9651552, US 9874561
Clostridium difficile toxins
IN 3239/CHENP/2006
Staphylococcus aureus
IN 201637031568
Drug resistant Enterococcus spp.
IN 835/CHENP/2010
Multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii CN107619871 (E)
Determination of protective antigen of anthrax
pathogen
RU2478970 (E)
(C) Diagnostics of fungal pathogens
Corneal pathogenic fungi
CN1014349933 (E)
(D) Diagnostics of viral pathogens
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
infection
US 5108904, US 5156951, US 5597688, AU
1991081528
Monitoring HIV specific T cell responses
IN 8394/DELNP/2014
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
infection/genotyping
US 7067258, US 7910883, US 8017757, US
8389217, KR 1020000013161, KR
1020120130910, KR100382703 (E),
KR100541916 (E), KR20040083674 (E),
RU2008139313 (E), IN 3104/DELNP/2007
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