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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:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
John A Kink, Lake Villa, IL (US);
Terence E Ryan, Libertyville, IL (US);
John A Todd, Grayslake, IL (US);
Badr Saeed, Mundelein, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; G01N / ; G01N / ; C07K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-5 ; 435-71 ; 435-792 ; 530350 ;
Abstract
An assay for detection of serum antibodies having specificity to hepatitis C viral antigens utilizes the carboxy-terminal 102 amino acids of the c33c region of nonstructural gene 3 of HCV containing substantially all the epitopes of the gene 3 protein. In the preferred embodiment the recombinant 102 amino acid peptide is coated onto a solid support, and incubated in the presence of serum obtained from a patient infected with HCV. The presence of antibodies bound to the antigen coated support is detected in a sandwich format utilizing a second reporter-conjugated antibody.