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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:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hans A Thoma, Munchen, DE;
Assignee:
Medeva Holdings B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 693 ; 435 691 ; 4241891 ; 530395 ; 536 2372 ;
Abstract
HBV surface antigen particles, prepared by recombinant DNA technology are described, said particles being composed of epitopes from the group of surface peptides and/or core peptide of non-A, non-B hepatitis virus, hepatitis virus A and/or hepatitis virus B. Respective particles are especially characterized by a composition of different epitopes selected from pre-S and S peptides. There are also described DNA-sequences, plasmids and cell lines coding for respective HBV surface antigen particles as well as a new vaccine containing the same.