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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
May. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
William R Jacobs, City Island, NY (US);
Graham F Hatfull, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Stoyan Bardarov, Bronx, NY (US);
Ruth McAdam, Essendon, GB;
Assignees:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY (US);
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435473 ; 435474 ; 435476 ;
Abstract
This invention is directed to L5 shuttle phasmids capable of delivering foreign DNA into mycobacteria and to methods of producing L5 shuttle phasmids. In addition, this invention is directed to a method of generating mycobacterial mutations and to a method of producing mycobacterial vaccines.