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EP 0696316 A1 19960214 - VIABLE BACTERIA

Title (en)

VIABLE BACTERIA

Title (de)

LEBENSFÄHIGE BAKTERIEN

Title (fr)

BACTERIES VIABLES

Publication

EP 0696316 A1 19960214 (EN)

Application

EP 94912638 A 19940418

Priority

  • GB 9400811 W 19940418
  • GB 9308734 A 19930428

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9425564A1] Microbial cells are stabilised for storage in the form of a dried composition in a stasis state suspended in a collapsed matrix. The composition is prepared by mixing the microbial cells, for example Gram-negative bacterial cells such as Pseudomonas fluorescens, with an aqueous composition comprising a polyhydroxy compound, preferably a saccharide, from which the matrix will be derived, and drying the mixture under conditions such that viscous flow of the polyhydroxy compound occurs and the matrix collapses but does not unduly damage the cells. The glass transition temperature of the matrix is ideally above the temperature at which the composition is stored.

IPC 1-7

C12N 1/04; C12N 11/04

IPC 8 full level

C12N 11/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/04 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12N 11/04 (2006.01); C12R 1/39 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR)

C12N 1/00 (2013.01 - KR); C12N 1/04 (2013.01 - EP); C12N 1/20 (2013.01 - KR); C12N 11/04 (2013.01 - EP)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 9425564A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9425564 A1 19941110; AU 6510494 A 19941121; AU 684072 B2 19971204; BG 100105 A 19961231; BR 9406488 A 19960109; CA 2161220 A1 19941110; CN 1121731 A 19960501; CZ 280595 A3 19960214; EP 0696316 A1 19960214; GB 9308734 D0 19930609; GB 9406552 D0 19940525; HU 9503064 D0 19951228; HU T72846 A 19960528; JP H08509374 A 19961008; KR 960701986 A 19960328; NZ 263867 A 19971024; PL 311297 A1 19960205; SK 134695 A3 19960605

DOCDB simple family (application)

GB 9400811 W 19940418; AU 6510494 A 19940418; BG 10010595 A 19951030; BR 9406488 A 19940418; CA 2161220 A 19940418; CN 94191905 A 19940418; CZ 280595 A 19940418; EP 94912638 A 19940418; GB 9308734 A 19930428; GB 9406552 A 19940331; HU 9503064 A 19940418; JP 52399494 A 19940418; KR 19950704675 A 19951026; NZ 26386794 A 19940418; PL 31129794 A 19940418; SK 134695 A 19940418