Patent ID: 6955908
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: C12N,C12R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A biologically pure culture of a single-celled organism, Spiky Rotating Cells (SPR), having all of the characteristics of the deposited single-celled organism having the accession number ATCC PTA-2129, wherein said organism causes disease in humans and comprises the following biological characteristics: (i) provisional classification as a protozoan, (ii) a spherical shape measuring approximately 7–8 μm as a solitary single-celled organism, (iii) a refractile cell membrane, (iv) multiple circumferential spiky projections of the cell membrane, (v) rotatory motility, (vi) periodic clustering behavior to form colonies, and (vii) existence in an extracellular environment.