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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1998
Vladimir Andrei Koulchin, Portland, ME (US);
Norman James Moore, North Berwick, ME (US);
Elena Valentin Molokova, Portland, ME (US);
Vladimir Andrei Koulchin, Portland, ME (US);
Norman James Moore, North Berwick, ME (US);
Elena Valentin Molokova, Portland, ME (US);
Alere Scarborough, Inc., Scarborough, ME (US);
Abstract
The present invention involves extracting frombacteria, particularlybacteria, an essentially protein-free O-polysaccharide or carbohydrate antigen, coupling this antigen to an activated chromatographic column through a protein spacer molecule which is first conjugated to the antigen, utilizing the column thus prepared for the affinity purification of raw polyvalent antibodies to the samebacterium from which the O-polysaccharide or carbohydrate antigen was separated—thereby obtaining antigen-specific antibodies which are useful for the rapid detection of the correspondingbacterium or its antibody in human bodily fluids such as urine, sputum, blood and the like or in environmental samples suspected of harboring thebacterium.