Patents Assigned to STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT, MORE PARTICULARLY THE RADBOUD UNIVERISTY NIJMEGEN MEDIC
  • NEW VIRULENCE FACTORS OF STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE
    Publication number: 20110305688
    Abstract: The present invention provides proteins/genes, which are essential for survival, and consequently, for virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in vivo, and thus are ideal vaccine candidates for a vaccine preparation against pneumococcal infection. Further, also antibodies against said protein(s) are included in the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT, MORE PARTICULARLY THE RADBOUD UNIVERISTY NIJMEGEN MEDIC
    Inventors: Peter Wilhelmus Maria Hermans, Hester Jeanette Bootsma, Pieter Jan Burghout, Christian Ostergaard Andersen, Oscar Paul Kuipers, Johanna Jacoba Elisabeth Bijlsma, Thomas Gerrit Kloosterman