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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:
Jul. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Qimin You, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 911 ; 435 912 ; 536 243 ; 536 2432 ;
Abstract
A newly-identified M. kansasii DNA sequence is described and designated KATS1. This sequence is highly M. kansasii-specific in nucleic acid hybridization assays and is useful for detecting both typical and atypical strains. KATS1 and segments of the KATS1 sequence are useful for species detection of M. kansasii in hybridization or nucleic acid amplification assays with 100% specificity and no cross-reactivity to non-M. kansasii species.