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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce Ivins, Frederick, MD (US);
Patricia Worsham, Jefferson, MD (US);
Arthur M. Friedlander, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Joseph W. Farchaus, Frederick, MD (US);
Susan L. Welkos, Frederick, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 2/104 ;
Abstract
A method of making a vaccine for anthracis that inolves a bacterial expression system and production and use of protective antigen (PA) against . The PA immunogen is useful in a vaccine against human anthrax. The PA can be produced by an asporogenic organism which produces the desired antigen, which is then harvested from the supernatant.