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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2016
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Warren Jaye Leonard, Bethesda, MD (US);
Erin Elizabeth West, Washington Grove, MD (US);
Rosanne Spolski, Silver Spring, MD (US);
K. Christopher Garcia, Menlo Park, CA (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method of promoting the host defense of a patient to a bacterial infection comprising administering to a patient suffering or at risk of a bacterial infection, a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of the pleiotropic cytokine, thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) protein or polypeptide in an amount and at a location sufficient to promote the host defense of the patient to the bacterial infection. In a preferred embodiment, the bacterial infection is the infection of the patient with MRSA. The invention also provides a method of treating blood product, which comprises introducing a TSLP protein or polypeptide into such blood product, wherein the blood product is extracorporeal and comprises at least one neutrophil.