LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UDTT) (Frankfurt:PO8), 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 it has launched a new campaign to draw traffic to its new hub for online sales and marketing of anti microbial products.
UDTT's Silver Anti-Bac product range has been successfully tested on over 50 different organisms in over 2,000 applications. It is an effective killer of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). According to a November 2007 paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the MRSA microbe, a strain of a once harmless staph bacterium that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics, is responsible for more than 94,000 serious infections and nearly 19,000 deaths each year. In a recent report, researchers at Wayne State University School of Medicine treated Agar Plates with different amounts of the Silver Anti-bacterial spray. The researchers also used Agar Plates that were untreated as controls for the experiment. In the course of the experiment, all the plates were exposed to bacteria from human cough and sneeze and also the ambient air. The plates were all placed in an incubator at 37 degrees Celsius. After 4 days, the untreated plates had colony growth, while the plates treated with the spray remained sterile for up to 6 weeks, even with repeated exposure.
"As we are continuing to see interest from many sources in our product line of antimicrobial products, we are building on our marketing of such products. Since the customer base is quite different than our customer base for biodetection devices, we have decided to begin a specific marketing program using a variety of specific tools to target the Anti-Bacterial market," said Mr. Jacques Tizabi, UDTT's Chief Executive Officer.
UDTT is a supplier of counter terrorism services and technologies to private and government organizations. The Company owns the license to a patented technology developed at NASA's JPL and utilized in UDTT's BSM-2000 used for autonomous monitoring of the air for presence of airborne bacterial spores such as anthrax. UDTT also supplies detection kits for detection of up to 5 bioterrorism agents. Among the Company's other products are radiation detection systems, educational material & training DVDs, and anti microbial chemicals.
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About Wayne State University School of Medicine
Founded in 1868, the Wayne State University School of Medicine is the largest single-campus medical school in the nation with more than 1,000 medical students. In addition to undergraduate medical education, the school offers master's degree, Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. programs in 14 areas of basic science to about 400 students annually. As the only medical school in Detroit, WSU has a stated mission to improve the overall health of the community. As part of this mission, the School has established, with the help of a $6 million NIH grant, the Center for Urban & African-American Health to seek new ways to redress health disparities by identifying preventive strategies and therapeutic approaches to chronic diseases that plague this population, namely obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The most significant contribution the School provides to the community is care to area residents who are under- or uninsured. Along with the Detroit Medical Center, WSU faculty physicians provide an average of $150 million in uncompensated care annually.
For more information, please visit http://www.med.wayne.edu
About Universal Detection Technology
Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bioterrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development partners is positioned 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.
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