US Patent Issued to Washington University on Aug. 25 for "Compositions and methods for the detection of tuberculosis" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,904, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Compositions and methods for the detection of tuberculosis" was invented by Jennifer Philips (St. Louis), Pallavi Chandra (St. Louis) and Heloise Coullon (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for diagnosis of bacterial infections (e.g., tuberculosis) are disclosed. In particular, the disclosure relates to the use of a panel of biomarkers for aiding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of bacterial infections such as tuberculosis. The identified biomarkers can be used to detect active infection as well as bacterial burden, and for monitoring respons...