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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR;
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 29 ; 4351723 ; 4353201 ; 435810 ; 436501 ; 436808 ; 536 27 ; 935 29 ; 935 78 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns a probe for the detection of shigellae and entero-invasive E. coli, containing a nucleic acid sequence originating from the 140 Mdal virulence plasmid of the M 90 T strain of Shigella flexneri; having a maximum size of around 27 kb and including all or part of the 27 kb Bam HI fragment. This probe permits the in vitro diagnosis of syndromes of dysentery or diarrhea, of the Shigellosis type.