Patents Examined by Nita Mannfield
  • Urease-based vaccine and treatment for helicobacter infection
    Patent number: 6290962
    Abstract: Method of eliciting in a mammalian host a protective immune response to Helicobacter infection and treatment of Helicobacter infection by administering to the host an immunogenically effective amount of a Helicobacter urease or urease subunits as antigen. Vaccine compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: OraVax, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Michetti, Iréne Corthésy-Theulaz, André Blum, Catherine Davin, Rainier Haas, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, Emilia Saraga