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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:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patricia A Spears, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Becton, Dickinson and Company, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12Q / ; C07H / ; C07M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 912 ; 435-6 ; 436 243 ; 436 2532 ;
Abstract
Amplification primers useful in assays for species-specific detection of a target sequence in the cryptic plasmid of C. trachomatis are described. The primers of the invention amplify a target in the region of nucleotides 2219-2366 of the cryptic plasmid sequence, and the target binding sequences disclosed may be adapted for use in amplification primers for a variety of amplification reactions.