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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:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Beverly Dale, Los Altos, CA (US);
Miles Yamanaka, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
William M Acree, Fort Dodge, IA (US);
Lloyd G Chavez, Jr, Fort Dodge, IA (US);
Assignees:
Scios Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
American Home Products Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 693 ; 4353201 ; 435325 ; 4352523 ; 536 2372 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides tools which are useful for the diagnosis of an animal's exposure to feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) or susceptibility to FIPV. The diagnostic tools are composed of nucleic acid sequences which encode structural and nonstructural FIPV proteins and antibodies generated against FIPV proteins. The FIPV proteins may also be useful as subunit vaccines.