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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Guadalupe A Limjuco, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Yashwant D Karkhanis, Fanwood, NJ (US);
Dennis J Carlo, South Amboy, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 92 ; 2601 / ; 424 87 ;
Abstract
A vaccine against E. coli caused diarrhea is prepared from an isolate of the homogeneous heat-labile enterotoxin of human strain MB3353 of Escherichia coli, ATCC 31361, or of the porcine strain MB3708, ATCC 31362. The toxin, which is a protein, is a low molecular weight species of 10,000-13,000.