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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:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yung-Fu Chang, Ithaca, NY (US);
Assignee:
Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 691 ; 536 237 ; 435 693 ; 4352401 ; 4352523 ; 43525233 ; 43525411 ; 4353201 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a new species of gram-negative bacterium, designated 'Pasteurella suis,' isolated from piglets with diarrhea, a gene or gene fragment encoding a novel leukotoxin secreted from Pasteurella suis, recombinant DNA sequences and expression systems for directing expression of the gene, a method of using the gene or gene fragment as an immunogen in vaccine formulations and as reagents in diagnostic assays.