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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Claire Y. H. Kinney, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Eric Thomas Beck, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Richard M. Kinney, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Inventors:
Claire Y. H. Kinney, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Eric Thomas Beck, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Richard M. Kinney, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/295 (2006.01); A61K 48/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The disclosure provides chimeric West Nile/Dengue viruses comprising non-coding regions, non-structural proteins, and a C protein from a West Nile virus and prM and E proteins from a Dengue virus. Also disclosed are methods of using the chimeric viruses in diagnosis of Dengue viral infection, assessment of candidate Dengue virus vaccine efficacy, and production of Dengue prM and E proteins.