Patents Examined by Baon Qun Li
  • Patent number: 7297533
    Abstract: An attenuated feline recombinant herpesvirus 1 (FHV-1), which is prepared by identifying gene regions in the genome wherein inserted foreign genes can be expressed without affecting the replication of FHV-1 and has least two types of foreign nucleic acid sequences inserted thereinto, usable as a vector virus or a vaccine. In this attenuated recombinant FHV-1, at least two types of foreign genes are inserted in such a manner as allowing the expression into two different gene regions exerting no lethal effect on the proliferation of the virus in the feline herpesvirus 1 genome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Kyoritsu Seiyaku Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Kawakami, Masahiko Kishi, Masami Mochizuki