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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Uab Research Foundation, Birmingham, AL (US);
Inventors:
De-Chu C. Tang, Birmingham, AL (US);
Zhongkai Shi, Birmingham, AL (US);
Kent Rigby van Kampen, Hoover, AL (US);
Assignee:
UAB Research Foundation, Birmingham, AL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 48/00 (2006.01); A61K 39/145 (2006.01); A61K 38/19 (2006.01); A61K 38/27 (2006.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01); A61K 39/08 (2006.01); A61K 38/17 (2006.01); A61K 39/39 (2006.01); A61K 39/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 39/145 (2013.01); A61K 38/1774 (2013.01); A61K 38/193 (2013.01); A61K 38/27 (2013.01); A61K 39/00 (2013.01); A61K 39/0011 (2013.01); A61K 39/08 (2013.01); A61K 39/12 (2013.01); A61K 39/39 (2013.01); A61K 2039/521 (2013.01); A61K 2039/522 (2013.01); A61K 2039/523 (2013.01); A61K 2039/5256 (2013.01); A61K 2039/53 (2013.01); A61K 2039/54 (2013.01); A61K 2039/541 (2013.01); A61K 2039/542 (2013.01); A61K 2039/543 (2013.01); A61K 2039/55516 (2013.01); A61K 2039/55522 (2013.01); A61K 2039/55555 (2013.01); C12N 2710/10343 (2013.01); C12N 2760/16134 (2013.01); C12N 2799/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed and claimed is a method of non-invasive immunization in an animal and/or a method of inducing a systemic immune response or systemic therapeutic response to a gene product. The skin of the animal is contacted with a non-replicative vector chosen from the group of bacterium, virus, and fungus, wherein the vector comprises and expresses a nucleic acid molecule encoding the gene product, in an amount effective to induce the response.