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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:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
May. 01, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lung-Ji Chang, Gainesville, FL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1713 ; A61K 4/800 ; C12N 1/5867 ; A01K 6/7027 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/1713 ; A61K 4/800 ; C12N 1/5867 ; A01K 6/7027 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides animals and methods for the evaluation of vaccines. In particular, the present invention provides humanized animal models for the evaluation of vaccines designed to confer immunity against human pathogens, including vaccines directed against the human immunodeficiency virus. The present invention further relates to HIV vaccines. In particular, the present invention provides attenuated replication-competent HIV vaccines and replication-defective HIV vaccines. In addition, the invention provides modified Leishmania cells expressing HIV proteins.