Patent ID: 11884984
Assignee: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  A | IPC A  C

Claim 0:
1. A method for
detecting and classifying a nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) infection in a male subject, the method comprising
detecting a pathogen in a urethral sample from the male subject, wherein the pathogen comprises Haemophilus influenzae, Mycoplasma penetrans, or both, wherein detecting the pathogen comprises carrying out a quantitative PCR on the urethral sample with a primer set that hybridizes to nucleotide sequences selected from a 16S rRNA gene of Haemophilus influenzae or Mycoplasma penetrans to generate Haemophilus influenzae and/or Mycoplasma penetrans specific amplicons, and
classifying the NGU infection based at least in part on detection of the pathogen higher than a baseline level of a reference from healthy individuals.