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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. 05, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H / ; C07H / ; A61K / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 231 ; 4241681 ; 4242481 ; 4352531 ; 536 237 ; 536 243 ; 536 2432 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to a Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific DNA fragment containing IS like and repetitive sequences, a method of production of such DNA fragment and the use of such DNA fragment, for example, to rapidly diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in clinical samples, and to identify clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The DNA fragment may be used to determine information about the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.