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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2003
Frederick J. Cassels, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James F. Wood, Germantown, MD (US);
Frederick J. Cassels, Ellicott City, MD (US);
James F. Wood, Germantown, MD (US);
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods for making large amounts of highly pure colonization factors. The methods of the present invention differ from prior art methods in that host cells which express the colonization factor of interest are cultured in media comprising more than about 50 μg/l of an antibiotic, the media is centrifuged and then filtered with a 0.2 μm filter tangential flow cartridge and a 300,000 MW cut-off filter, and a divalent cation is added. As disclosed herein the colonization factors made by the method of the present invention may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating or preventing enterotoxigenicinfections.