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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:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Y. Chien, Alamo, CA (US);
George Kuo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/70 ;
Abstract
The claimed invention provides methods of detecting and typing HCV using nucleic acid molecules encoding type specific and type-cluster specific epitopes. The nucleic acid molecules flanking regions encoding type specific or type cluster specific epitopes are useful in priming the polymerase chain reaction to determine the genotype an HCV isolate.