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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:
Aug. 19, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Franklin R Cockerill, III, Rochester, MN (US);
Bruce C Kline, Rochester, MN (US);
James R Uhl, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
Mayo Foundation For Medical Education And Research, Rochester, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 911 ; 435 912 ; 435863 ; 536 237 ; 536 2432 ; 536 2433 ; 935-8 ; 935 76 ; 935 77 ; 935 78 ;
Abstract
A method for determining the susceptibility of a strain of M. tuberculosis to isoniazid is provided comprising employing the techniques of restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis to determine whether or not the DNA of said strain has an MspI restriction site at the codon corresponding to codons 315 or 463 of an M. tuberculosis katG gene consensus sequence.