Patents by Inventor Elza Carmen Cerqueira De Almeida

Elza Carmen Cerqueira De Almeida has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for the immunological diagnosis of Chagas' Disease using recombinant antigens
    Patent number: 5736348
    Abstract: This patent deals with the use of Trypanosoma cruzi antigens obtained using recombinant DNA techniques, or synthetic peptides derived from these antigens, and their use in the immunological diagnosis of Chagas Disease using either ELISA, or western blot, or dot-blot, or hemagglutination, or agglutination, or monoclonal antibodies, or radioimmunoassay. The antigens or synthetic peptides are characterized by displaying the following aminoacid sequences: Ag1: valine (or alanine), alanine, glutamic acid, alanine (orthreonine), glutamic acid, lysine, glutamine, lysine (or arginine), alanine, alanine, glutamic acid, alanine (or serine), threonine (or methionine or alanine) and lysine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
    Inventors: Samuel Goldenberg, Marco Aurelio Krieger, Elza Carmen Cerqueira De Almeida