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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:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/900 ; A61K 3/902 ; A61K 3/909 ; A61K 3/938 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/900 ; A61K 3/902 ; A61K 3/909 ; A61K 3/938 ;
Abstract
The recombinant production of Gap4, a chimeric GapC plasmin binding protein comprising the entire amino acid sequence of the GapC protein in addition to unique amino acid sequences from the and GapC proteins, is described. Also described is the use of Gap4 chimeric GapC protein in vaccine compositions to prevent or treat streptococcal infections in general and mastitis in particular.