Patent ID: 7060223
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. A sampling/analysis member which is used to assay for an analyte of interest in a sample comprising: (a) a sampling wand having a sampling swab for collecting the sample of the analyte of interest and a sealing ring means around the wand adjacent to the swab; and (b) an analysis structure comprising a chamber having a proximal end into which the sampling wand is inserted to make a sealing fit with the sealing ring means as the wand moves through the chamber towards a distal end of the structure, the chamber further having a member on a base which member projects towards the swab provided intermediate to the proximal and distal end of the analysis structure against which the sampling swab advances to remove the sample from the swab such that the sample passes past the base and collects within a cavity at a distal end of the analysis structure in a reaction well having a reagent disc comprising a porous, non-fibrous absorbent polymeric material onto which a reactant system has been loaded by contacting a solution of the reactant system in a solvent with the polymeric material and removing the solvent from the polymeric material, the disc receiving the sample of the analyte of interest collected from the sampling swab and retaining the analyte for the relatively rapid detection of the presence of the analyte of interest in the sample.