Patents Assigned to Commonwealth and Industrial Research Organization
  • Haemonchus contortus vaccine
    Patent number: 5525508
    Abstract: A substantially purified antigen derived from a first species of parasitic nematodes, which antigen is capable of providing protection to a host from parasitism by a second nematode species, which may be the same as or different from the first nematode species, following vaccination of the host with the antigen, characterized in that the antigen is proteinaceous, has a pI between 3.8 and 4.4, can be bound by lentil lectin and Helix promatia lectin and has a molecular weight of approximately 45 kD as determined by SDS-PAGE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignees: Biotech Australia Pty Limited, Commonwealth and Industrial Research Organization
    Inventors: Phillip J. Sharp, Barry M. Wagland, Gary S. Cobon