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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Berge Hampar, Middletown, MD (US);
Stephen D Showalter, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Martin Zweig, Walkersville, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 435810 ; 436511 ; 436548 ; 436809 ; 436825 ;
Abstract
A method and test kit for the serological diagnosis of human infection by herpes sipmlex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) using immunoaffinity purified virus-coded glycoproteins as target antigens. A preferred embodiment of the method employs a variation of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) whereby monoclonal antibodies are used to purify target antigens, and test sera are absorbed with virus-infected cell extracts to remove intertypic cross-reacting antibodies.