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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:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alessio Fasano, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Myron M Levine, Columbia, MD (US);
James P Nataro, Catonsville, MD (US);
Fernando Noriega, Columbia, MD (US);
Assignee:
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12P / ; C07K / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352523 ; 435 711 ; 435 713 ; 4352521 ; 4353201 ; 530350 ; 530825 ; 536 221 ; 536 231 ; 536 237 ;
Abstract
Substantially pure enterotoxins of Shigella flexneri 2a are described, along with a method for obtaining the same, antibodies having binding specificity to the enterotoxins and a method for use of the enterotoxins to develop a non-reactogenic Shigella flexneri 2a vaccine candidate.