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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
James B. Dale, Memphis, TN (US);
Assignee:
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/909 ; A61K 3/902 ; A61K 3/900 ; A61K 3/904 ; C07K 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/909 ; A61K 3/902 ; A61K 3/900 ; A61K 3/904 ; C07K 1/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides immunogenic synthetic fusion polypeptide which stimulates an immune response against a selected pathogen, comprising at least two immunogenic polypeptides from a Group A streptococci of at least 10 amino acids in length which are capable of stimulating an immune response against Group A strepococci, and a peptide C terminal to the immunogenic polypeptide which protects the immunogenicity of the immunogenic portion, wherein the C-terminal peptide is not required to stimulate an immune response against Group A streptococci.