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Detection Technology

This section contains articles about advances in technology which can detect bioterrorism agents in time for treatment.

New technology identifies bacteria, viruses, other organisms within 24 hours
Science Centric - Thursday May 06, 2010
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"Law enforcement authorities seeking to detect bioterrorism attacks, doctors diagnosing diseases and regulatory agencies checking product safety may find a new ally in a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) detection technology. The advance, known as the Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA), could enable law enforcement, medical professionals and others to detect within 24 hours any virus or bacteria that has been sequenced and included among the array's probes. Developed between October 2007 and February 2008, the LLMDA detects viruses and bacteria with the use of 388,000 probes that fit in a checkerboard pattern in the middle of a one-inch wide, three-inch long glass slide. The current operational version of the LLMDA contains probes that can detect more than 2,000 viruses and about 900 bacteria."

Universal Detection Technology working with the US Department of Commerce to market its anthrax [sic] detection equipment in Iraq.
MSNBC.com/Universal Detection Technology press release - Tuesday February 17, 2009
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Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that through its deal with US Department of Commerce's Commercial Service, it is promoting the Company's handheld assays, used for detection of up to five bioterrorism agents. [&] Testing of the kits by the U.S. DOD as well as the United Kingdom military show that the kits demonstrate no cross-reactivity with near neighbor species and no false positives with commonly encountered white powders. The kits are designed to test for anthrax [sic], botulinum toxin, Ricin, plague (Y. Pestis) and SEBs [staphylococcal enterotoxin B] in as little as 3 minutes.

U.S. snaps up [Bacillus Anthracis] scanner
by Rebecca Todd - The Press, New Zealand - Wednesday November 05, 2008
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Clients included hazardous materials teams in major American cities and US defence agencies, [Andrew Rudge] said. Existing technologies and products took between 30 minutes and three days to do the same job and destroyed the sample so it could not be tested further. [&] It's simple to use analysis begins with the press of a single button and it returns a spores detected or no spores detected result within minutes. That saves both time and money in terms of disruptions and evacuations, because security staff get immediate feedback on whether they are dealing with a hoax or the real thing. [according to Veritide chief executive officer Andrew Rudge] [&] There were plans to extend the Scout's detection capability to include other dangerous biological threats such as ricin.

*Universal Detection Technology Receives Purchase Order From the
Prime Newswire/Press Release - Tuesday September 11, 2007
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Universal Detection Technology, a developer and marketer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism, announced today that it has received a purchase order from the government of England. The order is for consumables and software for two of the Company's BSM-2000 anthrax detection systems previously purchased by the British Government. The order also includes point detection kits which are capable of detecting anthrax [bacteria], [r]icin toxin, [b]otulinum toxin, plague [bacteria], and SEBs [Staphylococcal enterotoxin B]

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