Patent ID: 9315851
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: C07K,C12Q,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method for detecting the presence or absence of a wound-specific bacterium, wherein the wound-specific bacterium is one or more of Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterococcus faecalis , and Serratia marcescens , in a sample selected from a wound surface, a body fluid, or fluid from a wound, comprising: a) contacting the sample with a detectably labelled synthetic al-proteinase inhibitor reactive site loop domain peptide substrate under conditions that result in cleavage of said substrate by an enzyme produced by the wound-specific bacterium; and b) detecting a cleavage or an absence of the cleavage of the substrate, the cleavage of the peptide substrate indicating the presence of the wound-specific bacterium in the sample and absence of cleavage of the substrate indicating absence of the wound-specific bacterium in the sample.