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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J_U_ICE: [QB] UDTT .011 Universal Detection Technology's Microbial Monitor Will Have Significant Advantages Over Current Methods of Determining Contamination in Hospitals PR Newswire - November 9, 2006 7:30 AM (EDT) LOS ANGELES, Nov 09, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Universal Detection Technology (OTC Bulletin Board: UDTT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, announced that the Microbial Monitor it has under development will have significant advantages in terms of cost, frequency and accuracy over current methods for determining microbial contamination, once commercialized. This technology is under exclusive license to UDTT from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Office of Technology Transfer and a provisional patent has been filed. In 2004 UDTT unveiled the BSM-2000, a bacterial spore monitor used for detection of airborne bio-terror agents such as anthrax. BSM-2000 was co- developed by NASA's JPL based on a technology that UDTT had licensed in 2002. Last month, UDTT, announced the sale of two BSM-2000's to the government of the United Kingdom. UDTT has pursued the maturation of the spore detector technology, with the licensing of the Microbial Monitor, and is expanding its detection capabilities to the threat posed by microbes to the health care industry. As indicated by the provisional patent filed with the U.S. Patent Office: Currently, bioburden levels are determined using culturing assays, where microorganisms are quantified in terms of colony forming units (CFU) that become visible on growth plates after a defined incubation period -- usually 3-4 days. Another problem of measuring bioburden levels with this method is that an array of microorganisms can be present in a contaminated environment, and measuring each organism individually is nor practical. According to the Center for Disease Control, Hospital Acquired infections in the U.S. lead to about 90,000 deaths annually -- more than the toll from breast cancer and car crashes and add about 5 billion dollars a year to the cost of patient care. The Microbial Monitor uses a method of measuring bacterial endospore concentrations in an indoor environment; and correlating the measured bacterial endospore concentration to biomass in the said environment, thereby providing an indicator for said biomass. NASA scientists have shown that the correlation between total biomass levels and endospore levels at the Environmental Control and Life Support System at the Marshall Space Flight Center. This method can be used to measure for the presence of Staphylococcus aureus, the most common microbe responsible for Hospital acquired infection, using an automated instrument. "Preliminary research on the Microbial Monitor shows that it obviates any dependence on culturing microbial targets," said Amir Ettehadieh UDT's Director of Research and Development. "This is an obvious advantage in view of the fact that contamination of any microbial species is not desirable, and thus further culturing of any contaminating species should be avoided," he added. About Universal Detection Technology Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bio-terrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development partners is positioned it to capitalize on opportunities related to Homeland Security. For example, the Company, in cooperation with NASA has developed a bio-terror 'smoke' detector that detects certain bio hazard substances. For more information, please visit http://www.udetection.com. About Caltech Office of Technology Transfer The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is responsible for the licensing and transfer of technologies from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). OTT provides a service to Caltech faculty members, students, other Caltech researchers, and JPL technologists by protecting the intellectual property developed in their Caltech and JPL laboratories. For more information, please visit http://www.ott.caltech.edu. Forward-Looking Statements Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectations. SOURCE Universal Detection Technology Jacques Tizabi of Universal Detection Technology, +1-310-248-3655, jtizabi*udetection.com http://www.ott.caltech.edu Copyright (C) 2006 PR Newswire. All rights reserved [/QB][/QUOTE]
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