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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. 06, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biochem Vaccines Inc., Ste-Foy, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12P / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435-4 ; 435 691 ; 435963 ; 536 234 ; 536 237 ;
Abstract
A heat shock protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae named HSP72 and immunologically related polypeptides, the nucleotide and derived amino acid sequences of HSP72 (SEQ ID NO:4; SEQ ID NO:5), antibodies that bind to HSP72, and recombinant DNA methods for the production of HSP72 and immunologically related polypeptides. The polypeptides, DNA sequences and antibodies of this invention provide new means for the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of disease.