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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2007
Applicants:
Neil David Hammond Raven, Salisbury, GB;
John Mark Sutton, Salisbury, GB;
Inventors:
Neil David Hammond Raven, Salisbury, GB;
John Mark Sutton, Salisbury, GB;
Assignee:
Health Protection Agency, Salisbury, Wiltshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 3/34 (2006.01); C12S 3/00 (2006.01); C12S 9/00 (2006.01); D06M 16/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) agent is inactivated by exposing the TSE agent to a thermostable proteolytic enzyme at elevated temperature and at acid or alkaline pH. Following this step, or separately, presence of TSE infectivity is detected by detection of dimers of prion protein.