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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:
Jan. 27, 1998
Filed:
May. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Houghton, Danville, CA (US);
Qui-Lim Choo, El Cerrito, CA (US);
George Kuo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amy J Weiner, Oakland, CA (US);
Jang Han, Lafayette, CA (US);
Michael Steven Urdea, Alamo, CA (US);
Bruce Duncan Irvine, Concord, CA (US);
Janice A Kolberg, Richmond, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 435-6 ; 435 911 ; 435 912 ; 435 9132 ; 536 231 ; 536 2432 ; 536 2433 ; 536 253 ; 935 76 ; 935 77 ;
Abstract
A new virus, Hepatitis C virus (HCV), which has proven to be the major etiologic agent of blood-borne NANBH, was discovered by Applicant. Reagents for isolating, amplifying, and detecting HCV polynucleotides are provided. These reagents are oligomers containing polynucleotide sequences which are capable of forming hybrid structures with HCV target polynucleotide sequences.