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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. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sven Bergstrom, Umea, SE;
Alan G Barbour, San Antonio, TX (US);
Louis A Magnarelli, Durham, CT (US);
Assignee:
Symbicom AB, Ume.ang., SE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12P / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 693 ; 435 912 ; 435-6 ; 536 234 ; 536 237 ;
Abstract
Disclosed and claimed are Lyme disease vaccines and methods for making and using them. The vaccines include a vector containing DNA encoding OspA or an immunogenic fragment thereof or such DNA encoding OspA or an immunogenic fragment thereof which has been modified by substitution, addition, insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides, whereby the DNA when expressed results in OspA, or an immunogenic fragment thereof, or a polypeptide having the immunological activity of OspA or the fragment thereof.