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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2012
Rinat Neuroscience Corp., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Davide Luciano Foletti, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Javier Fernando Chaparro Riggers, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jacob Eli Gunn Glanville, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lee Mary Beth Shaughnessy, Madison, WI (US);
David Louis Shelton, Oakland, CA (US);
Pavel Strop, San Mateo, CA (US);
Wenwu Zhai, Redwood City, CA (US);
Rinat Neuroscience Corp., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides antagonizing antibodies that bind toalpha-toxin. The invention further provides a method of obtaining such antibodies and antibody encoding nucleic acids. The invention further relates to therapeutic methods for use of these antibodies for the treatment and/or prevention of staphylococcal disease, including, for example, pneumonia, bacteremia, sepsis, eye infection, and abscess.