US20120120385A1 - Pathogen detection by simultaneous size/fluorescence measurement - Google Patents

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US20120120385A1
US20120120385A1 US11/768,103 US76810307A US2012120385A1 US 20120120385 A1 US20120120385 A1 US 20120120385A1 US 76810307 A US76810307 A US 76810307A US 2012120385 A1 US2012120385 A1 US 2012120385A1
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  • the present invention relates generally to a system and method for detecting airborne or waterborne particles, and more particularly to a system and method for detecting airborne or waterborne particles and classifying the detected particles.
  • the invention has particular utility in detecting and classifying allergens and biological warfare agents and will be described in connection with such utility, although other utilities are contemplated.
  • An urban terrorist attack involving release of biological warfare agents such as bacillus anthracis (anthrax) is presently a realistic concern.
  • Weaponized anthrax spores are extremely dangerous because they can gain passage into the human lungs.
  • a lethal inhalation dose of anthrax spores for humans, LD 50 lethal dose sufficient to kill 50% of the persons exposed is estimated to be 2,500 to 50,000 spores (see T. V. Inglesby, et al., “Anthrax as a Biological Weapon”, JAMA, vol. 281, page 1735, 1999).
  • Some other potential weaponized bio-agents are yersinia pestis (plague), clostridium botulinum (botulism), and francisella tularensis.
  • yersinia pestis plaque
  • botulism clostridium botulinum
  • francisella tularensis francisella tularensis.
  • a real time detector of environmental microbial level is useful for public health, quality control and regulatory purposes.
  • parenteral drug manufacturers are required to monitor the microbial levels in their aseptic clean rooms.
  • an instrument which can detect microbes in the environment instantaneously will be a useful tool and have advantages over conventional nutrient plate culture methods which requires days for microbes to grow and to be detected.
  • Particle size measurement and ultraviolet (UV) induced fluorescence detection have been used to detect the presence of biological substances in the air.
  • UV ultraviolet
  • these devices are Biological Agent Warning Sensor (BAWS) developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, fluorescence biological particle detection system of Ho (Jim yew-Wah Ho, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,701,012; 5,895,922; 6,831,279); FLAPS and UV-APS by TSI of Minnesota (Peter P. Hairston; and Frederick R. Quant; U.S. Pat. No. 5,999,250), and a fluorescence sensor by Silcott (U.S. Pat. No. 6,885,440).
  • BAWS Biological Agent Warning Sensor
  • a proposed bio-sensor based on laser-induced fluorescence using a pulsed UV laser is described by T. H. Jeys, et al., Proc. IRIS Active Systems, vol. 1, p. 235, 1998. This is capable of detecting an aerosol concentration of five particles per liter of air, but involves expensive and delicate instruments. Other particle counters are manufactured by Met One Instrument, Inc, of Grants Pass, Oreg., Particle Measurement Systems, Inc., of Boulder, Colo., and Terra Universal Corp., of Anaheim, Calif.
  • the present invention provides a sensor system which is capable of simultaneously measuring particle size and detecting the presence of intrinsic fluorescence from metabolites and other bio-molecules, on a particle-by-particle basis.
  • the advantages of this detection scheme over the prior art are several. For one it provides a deterministic particle measurement methodology for characterizing particles rather than relying on statistical models employed in prior art for particle characterization. The deterministic measurement methodology enables more definitive assignment of particle characters than the prior art and less reliance on statistical models.
  • the current invention comprises three main components: (1) a first optical system for measuring an individual particle size; (2) a second optical system to detect a UV laser-induced intrinsic fluorescence signal from an individual particle; and (3) a data recording format for assigning both particle size and fluorescence intensity to an individual particle, and computer readable program code for differentiating microbes from non-microbes (e.g. inert dust particles).
  • the optical assembly of the present invention has two optical sub-assemblies: (a) an optical setup to measure the particle size.
  • the preferred embodiment of the current invention uses the well-known and often used Mie scattering detection scheme, but applies it in a novel way, enabling the system to make highly accurate measurements of airborne particles with size ranges from 0.5 microns to 20 microns. This capability to make fine distinctions in size is important in order to determine the class of microbe, because different classes of microbes have different size ranges; (b) simultaneous to the particle size measurement, an optical apparatus is used to measure the fluorescence level from the particle being interrogated.
  • the preferred embodiment of the current invention uses an elliptical mirror which is positioned to collected fluorescence emission from the same particle as it is being measured for size.
  • FIG. 1 is a plot showing particle size ranges of several airborne inert and microbial particulates
  • FIG. 2( a ) is a histogram representation of simultaneous measurements of particle size and fluorescence showing particle distribution for microbe-free air;
  • FIG. 2( b ) is a histogram showing simultaneous measurements of particle size and fluorescence for air containing Baker's yeast powder
  • FIG. 3 is a histogram representation of simultaneous measurements of 7 micron size fluorescent dye doped particles and fluorescence
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an optical system in accordance with the present invention, for performing simultaneous measurements of particle size and fluorescence;
  • FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the optical system of FIG. 4 .
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of an optical system for a fluid particle detector system according to a first exemplary embodiment of the invention.
  • This first exemplary embodiment of the system is designed, for example to detect airborne or waterborne bio-terrorist agents deliberately released by terrorists or others, but also may be used in civilian applications to detect harmful levels of other airborne or waterborne particles which may exist naturally such as mold or bacteria, or which may have been accidentally, inadvertently, naturally, or deliberately related, or for other industrial applications such as the food and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, as well as clean room applications.
  • fluid borne particles means both airborne particles and waterborne particles.
  • pathogen refers to any airborne or waterborne particles, biological agent, or toxin, which could potentially harm or even kill humans exposed to such particles if present in the air or water in sufficient quantities.
  • biological agent is defined as any microorganism, pathogen, or infectious substance, toxin, biological toxin, or any naturally occurring, bioengineered or synthesized component of any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of production.
  • biological agents include, for example, biological toxins, bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, spores, fungi, and protozoa, as well as others known in the art.
  • Bio toxins are poisonous substances produced or derived from living plants, animals or microorganisms, but also can be produced or altered by chemical means.
  • a toxin generally develops naturally in a host organism (i.e., saxitoxin is produced by marine algae), but genetically altered and/or synthetically manufactured toxins have been produced in a laboratory environment.
  • toxins Compared with microorganisms, toxins have a relatively simple biochemical composition and are not able to reproduce themselves. In many aspects, they are comparable to chemical agents.
  • Such biological toxins are, for example, botulinum and tetanus toxins, staphylococcal enterotoxin B, tricothocene mycotoxins, ricin, saxitoxin, Shiga and Shiga-like toxins, dendrotoxins, erabutoxin b, as well as other known toxins.
  • the detector system of the present invention is designed to detect airborne or waterborne particles and produce outputs indicating, for instance, the number of particles of each size within the range, which is detected in a sample, and indicate whether the particles are biologic or non-biologic.
  • the system also may produce an alarm signal or other response if the number of particles exceeds a predetermined value above a normal background level, and/or biological organisms or biological agents and potentially dangerous.
  • FIG. 4 is a representation of system 10 for a fluid particle detector system according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
  • the system 10 includes an UV light excitation source 12 such as a laser providing a beam of electromagnetic radiation 14 have an UV light source wavelength.
  • the UV light source is selected to have a wavelength capable of exciting intrinsic fluorescence from metabolites inside microbes.
  • the excitation source 12 preferably operates in a wavelength of about 270 nm to about 410 nm, preferably about 350 nm to about 410 nm.
  • a wavelength of about 270 nm to about 410 nm is chosen based on the premise that microbes comprise three primary metabolites: tryptophan, which normally fluoresces at about 270 nm with a range of about 220 nm-about 300 nm; nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) which normally fluoresces at about 340 nm (range about 320 nm-about 420 nm); and riboflavin which normally fluoresces at about 400 nm (range about 320 nm-about 420 nm).
  • the excitation source 12 has a wavelength of about 350 to about 410 nm.
  • This wavelength ensures excitation of two of the three aforesaid primary metabolites, NADH, and riboflavin in bio-agents, but excludes excitation of interferences such as from diesel engine exhaust and other inert particles such as dust or baby powder.
  • the present invention makes a judicial selection of wavelength range of the excitation source 12 , which retains the ability of exciting fluorescence from NADH and riboflavin (foregoing the ability to excite tryptophan) while excluding the excitation of interferents such as diesel engine exhaust. This step is taken to reduce false alarms generated by diesel exhaust (which can be excited by short UV wavelengths such as 266 nm light.
  • Mie scattering particle-size detector 20 includes a beam blocker lens 22 , a collimator lens 24 and a condenser lens 26 for focusing a portion of the light beam 14 onto a particle detector 28 .
  • an elliptical mirror 30 is placed at the particle-sampling region in such a way that the intersection of the incoming particle stream and the laser beam is at one of the two foci of the ellipsoid, while a fluorescence detector 32 (in this case a photo-multiplier tube) occupies the other focus.
  • a fluorescence detector 32 in this case a photo-multiplier tube
  • This design utilizes the fact that a point source of light emanating from one of the two foci of an ellipsoid will be focused onto the other.
  • the elliptical mirror 30 concentrates the fluorescence signal from microbe and focus it onto the fluorescence detector 32 .
  • An optical filter 34 is placed in front of the fluorescence detector to block the scattered UV light and pass the induced fluorescence.
  • the beam blocker lens 22 is designed to reflect non-scattered elements of the laser beam 14 , and may have a material, such as vinyl, attached a front surface to reflect the non-scattered elements of the beam of electromagnetic radiation.
  • a material such as vinyl
  • Other features and considerations for the beam blocker lens 22 are disclosed in some of the earlier U.S. patents to Hamburger et al. listed above, and in PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US2006027638, incorporated herein by reference.
  • the particle detector 20 may comprise, for example, a photodiode for sizing the particles, e.g. as described in the earlier U.S. patent to Hamburger et al., listed above, and incorporated herein by reference.
  • the present invention's use of Mie scattering also facilitates the placement of optical components for the detection of UV light illumination to concurrently examine individual particles for the presence of the metabolites NADH, riboflavin and other bio-molecules, which are necessary intermediates for metabolism of living organisms, and therefore exist in microbes such as bacteria and fungi. If these chemical compounds exist in a bio-aerosol, they are excited by the UV photon energy and subsequently emit auto-fluorescence light which may be detected by an instrument based on the detection scheme outlined above.
  • this detection scheme is not capable of identifying the genus or species of microbes, and viruses may be too small and lack the metabolism for detection, this detection scheme's ability to simultaneously and for each particle determine the size of the particle and if it is biologic or inert indicates to the user the presence or absence of microbial contamination.
  • an instrument continuously monitors the environmental air (or liquid) to measure the size of each individual airborne particle in real time and to concurrently determine whether that particle emits fluorescence or not.
  • a threshold is set for the fluorescence signal. If the fluorescence signal is below the set level, the particle is marked inert.
  • This fluorescence signal threshold can be fluorescence signal intensity, fluorescence intensity as a function of particle cross-sectional area or a function of particle volume. If the fluorescence signal threshold exceeds the set level, the particle is marked biological.
  • FIGS. 2( a ) and 2 ( b ) illustrate the functionality of a detector in accordance with the present invention. They show the environmental airborne particle data measured by using this detection scheme. In each graph, the upper part depicts in logarithmic scale the particle size histogram of particle concentration (#/liter of air) versus particle size (from 1 micron to 13 microns); solid bars represent inert particles whereas striped bars indicate the presence of microbes.
  • the lower part of the graph is a real-time snap shot of the particles detected within 1 second: each spike represents one single particle and its height corresponds to the particle size.
  • FIG. 3 shows the data set obtained when 7 microns fluorescent dye doped plastic beads were disseminated into a detector capable of simultaneous particle size and fluorescence measurement scheme.
  • the striped bars show the presence of fluorescence in those particles with a distribution in the 7 microns size range.

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