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Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2003
Applicants:

Kathrin U. Jansen, Doylestown, PA (US);

Jessica C. Ling, Bensalem, PA (US);

Steven W. Ludmerer, Piscataway, NJ (US);

William L. Mcclements, Doylestown, PA (US);

Xin-min Wang, Schwenksville, PA (US);

Inventors:

Kathrin U. Jansen, Doylestown, PA (US);

Jessica C. Ling, Bensalem, PA (US);

Steven W. Ludmerer, Piscataway, NJ (US);

William L. McClements, Doylestown, PA (US);

Xin-Min Wang, Schwenksville, PA (US);

Assignee:

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 21/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention is a series of synthetic virus-like particles comprising a heterologous conformational epitope useful in the characterization of human papillomavirus infection, and useful to vaccinate individual for protection against HPV 6 and HPV 11 infections, and assays employing the synthetic virus-like particles.


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