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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2003
Liise-anne Pirofski, New York, NY (US);
Zhaojing Zhong, Bronx, NY (US);
Qing Chang, Bronx, NY (US);
Abgenix, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention described herein provides human antibodies produced in non-human animals that specifically bind tocapsular polysaccharide (PPS-3). The invention further provides methods for making the antibodies in a non-human animal and for expressing the antibodies in cells including hybridomas and recombinant host cell systems. Kits and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies are also provided in addition to methods of treating, inhibitng or preventinginfection or conditions or disorders caused by such infection by administering to a patient the pharmaceutical compositions described herein.