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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1997
Gerardo Vasta, Columbia, MD (US);
Adam G. Marsh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joséto A. Fernández-Robledo, Baltimore, MD (US);
Cathleen A. Coss, Hagerstown, MD (US);
Anita C. Wright, Woodstock, MD (US);
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to oligonucleotides used as amplification primers and assay probes for species-specific detection and identification of the protozoan Perkinsus in shellfish. The oligonucleotides are designed to preferentially hybridize to what has been found to be a species-unique sequence in the target organism's genome. Preferential hybridization means, for example, that the inventive primers amplify the target sequence in,with little or no detectable amplification of target sequences of other species of protozoa such as,thereby making the assay species specific.