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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:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 30, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jill Catherine Makin, Liverpool, GB;
Andrew David Bacon, London, GB;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/9145 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/9145 ;
Abstract
A vaccine composition adapted for mucosal administration is provided. The composition includes one or more influenza vaccine antigens and an effective adjuvant amount of an acid addition salt of a chitosan wherein the chitosan is a deacetylated chitin which is at least 80% deacetylated and has a weight average molecular weight of between 10,000 and 100,000.