Combination Of Viral And Bacterial Antigens (e.g., Multivalent Viral And Bacterial Vaccine, Etc.) Patents (Class 424/201.1)
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Publication number: 20080193410Abstract: The pharmaceutical composition is useful for treating epithelial tumors in a subject and contains at least two antigens and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, where each of the antigens induces or is capable of inducing a cutaneous delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) response in the subject. This composition is particularly useful in treating epithelial tumors, such as warts or verrucae, that are induced by or related to papillomavirus. Antigens useful in the present pharmaceutical composition are anergy panel antigens, such as killed mumps virus, candida extract, trichophyton extract or comparable antigenic extracts. An additional pharmaceutical composition, also useful for treating epithelial tumors, contains at least one antigen that induces or is capable of inducing a cutaneous DTH response in a subject, at least one cytokine or colony stimulating factor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Kits containing these pharmaceutical compositions are useful for this immunotherapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of ArkansasInventors: Thomas Dag Horn, Sandra Marchese Johnson
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Patent number: 7410954Abstract: The present invention provides an adenovirus serotype 30 (Ad30) fiber amino acid sequence. The present invention also provides polynucleotides and expression vectors encoding an Ad30 fiber and viral particles and cells containing such expression vectors. The present invention further provides methods of treating genetic diseases or cancers in a mammal using the polynucleotides, polypeptides, expression vectors, viral particles and cells of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: University of Iowa Research FoundationInventors: Beverly L. Davidson, Lane K. Law
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Patent number: 7404960Abstract: A vaccine composition comprising two valences is provided: (i) a first valence which is adjuvant-enhanced with aluminum hydroxide and (ii) a second valence which contains a polysaccharide of bacterial capsule comprising one or more o-acetyl groups and which is not adsorbed with aluminum oxide due to the presence of a protecting compound which may be a phosphate, a citrate or a carbonate and which prevents the adsorption. The first valence can be any vaccine valence. In one particular embodiment, the vaccine composition contains (i) Hepatitis A valence, adsorbed on aluminum hydroxide and (ii) the typhoid fever valence formed by the polysaccharide Vi of the Salmonella typhi capsule.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Aventis Pasteur SAInventor: Alain Françon
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Publication number: 20080175860Abstract: This invention relates to vaccines and methods for protecting dogs against disease caused by Bordetella bronchiseptica. This invention relates to vaccines and methods for protecting dogs against disease caused by Leptospira bratislava. This invention also relates to combination vaccines and methods for protecting dogs against disease or disorder caused by canine pathogens, for example, infectious tracheobronchitis caused by Bordetella bronchiseptica, canine distemper caused by canine distemper (CD) virus, infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) caused by canine adenovirus type 1 (CAV-1), respiratory disease caused by canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2), canine parainfluenza caused by canine parainfluenza (CPI) virus, enteritis caused by canine coronavirus (CCV) and canine parvovirus (CPV), and leptospirosis caused by Leptospira bratislava, Leptospira canicola, Leptospira grippotyphosa, Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae or Leptospira pomona.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicants: PFIZER INC., PFIZER PRODUCTS INC.Inventors: Joseph Frantz, Cassius McAllister Tucker, Thomas Jack Newby
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Publication number: 20080138360Abstract: A vaccine composition for the therapeutic and prophylactic treatment of Hepatitis C, containing as components the Hepatitis C virus structural proteins in certain proportions and having an enhancer effect in the development of the immune response against the Hepatitis C virus. Combined vaccines against pathogenic entities including this vaccine composition are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2005Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Alexis Lasa Musacchio, Santiago Duenas Carrera, Liz Alvarez-Lajonchere Ponce de Leon, Nelson Acosta Rivero, Gillian Martinez Donato, Maria Guirola Tsibulova, Gretel Sardinas Garcia
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Patent number: 7384640Abstract: A mutant cholera holotoxin featuring a point mutation at amino acid 29 of the A subunit, wherein the glutamic acid residue is replaced by an amino acid other than aspartic acid, is useful as an adjuvant in an antigenic composition to enhance the immune response in a vertebrate host to a selected antigen from a pathogenic bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite. In a particular embodiment, the amino acid 29 is histidine. The mutant cholera holotoxin may contain at least one additional mutation in the A subunit at a position other than amino acid 29. The antigenic composition may include a second adjuvant in addition to the mutant cholera holotoxin.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignees: Wyeth Holdings Corporation, The United States of America as represented by the Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesInventors: Randall K. Holmes, Michael G. Jobling, John H. Eldridge, Bruce A. Green, Gerald E. Hancock, Joel A. Peek
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Publication number: 20080107683Abstract: Bacterial packaging strains useful for generating recombinant double-stranded RNA nucleocapsids (rdsRNs) are provided. The packaging strains are useful for the production of RNA encoding vaccine antigens, bioactive proteins, immunoregulatory proteins, antisense RNAs, and catalytic RNAs in eukaryotic cells or tissues. Recombinant ssRNA is introduced into the strains and packaged to form rdsRNs de novo.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: David Hone, John Fulkerson, Jerald C. Sadoff, David Onyabe, Michele Stone
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Patent number: 7361355Abstract: Mutant cholera holotoxins comprising a cholera toxin subunit A having single amino acid substitutions in the amino acid positions 16 or 72 or a double amino acid substitution in the amino acid positions 16 and 68 or 68 and 72 have reduced toxicity compared to the wild-type cholera holotoxin. The mutant cholera holotoxins are useful as adjuvants in immunogenic compositions to enhance the immune response in a vertebrate host to a selected antigen from a pathogenic bacterium, virus, fungus, or parasite, a cancer cell, a tumor cell, an allergen, or a self-molecule.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignees: Wyeth Holdings Corporation, The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body CorporateInventors: Bruce A. Green, Randall K. Holmes, Michael G. Jobling, Duzhang Zhu
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Patent number: 7332174Abstract: Mutant cholera holotoxins having single or double amino acid substitutions or insertions have reduced toxicity compared to the wild-type cholera holotoxin. The mutant cholera holotoxins are useful as adjuvants in antigenic compositions to enhance the immune response in a vertebrate host to a selected antigen from a pathogenic bacterium, virus, fungus, or parasite, a cancer cell, a tumor cell, an allergen, or a self-molecule.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignees: Wyeth Holdings Corporation, The United States of America as represented by the Uniformed Services University of Health SciencesInventors: Bruce A. Green, Randall K. Holmes, Michael G. Jobling, Duzhang Zhu
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Patent number: 7309493Abstract: Inactivated scours vaccines for immunization and protection of bovine animals from disease caused by infection with bovine rotavirus and bovine coronavirus, which comprise and effective amount of at least one inactivated viral strain are described. Polyvalent inactivated vaccines further comprising an effective amount of an antigenic component which is protective against one or more additional pathogenic organisms or viruses are also disclosed. Said vaccines are prepared from one or more strains of rota- and coronavirus, C. perfringens Type C bacteria and E. coli bacteria, and combinations thereof. Preferably, a polyvalent inactivated vaccine is provided for parenteral administration. Passive immunity is achieved in neonatal calves via immunization of pregnant cows prior to birth.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Kelly Knape, Stephanie Dykstra, Mary Tinant
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Patent number: 7252827Abstract: Fusion proteins comprising an immunogenic polypeptide are disclosed. The immunogenic polypeptide consists of the amino acid sequence motif Xaa-Thr-Xaa-Val-Thr-Gly-Gly-Xaa-Ala-Ala-Arg-Thr-Thr-Xaa-Gly-Xaa-Xaa-Ser-Leu-Phe-Xaa-Xaa-Gly-Xaa-Ser-Gln-Xaa-Ile-Gln-Leu-Ile (SEQ ID NO:8). Also disclosed are immunogenic compositions comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and the fusion protein.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1997Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Amy J. Weiner, Michael Houghton
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Patent number: 7235243Abstract: Immununological compositions and methods for making and using them. The compositions contain at least one antigen and at least one lipoprotein and optionally an adjuvant. The lipoprotein can itself be antigenic or immunogenic. The antigen can be influenza HA and the lipoprotein a recombinantly expressed product having an OspA leader for lipidation and PspA for the protein portion. The antigen can be OspC and the lipoprotein OspA. The components of the composition are co-administered. A potentiated immunological response is obtained by the compositions and methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Connaught Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Becker, Robert C. Huebner, Maryann Gray, Karen S. Biscardi, Lorne F. Erdile, Bruno Guy
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Patent number: 7189536Abstract: The present invention provides an attenuated virus, which is derived from Modified Vaccinia Ankara virus and characterized by the loss of its capability to reproductively replicate in human cell lines. It further describes recombinant viruses derived from this virus and the use of the virus, or its recombinants, as a medicament or vaccine. A method is provided for inducing an immune response in individuals who may be immune-compromised, receiving antiviral therapy, or have a pre-existing immunity to the vaccine virus. In addition, a method is provided for the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of the virus, or its recombinants, in a vaccinia virus prime/vaccinia virus boost innoculation regimen.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Bavarian Nordic A/SInventors: Paul Chaplin, Paul Howley, Christine Meisinger
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Patent number: 7179472Abstract: The genome sequences and the nucleotide sequences coding for the PWD circovirus polypeptides, such as the circovirus structural and non-structural polypeptides, vectors including the sequences, and cells and animals transformed by the vectors are provided. Methods for detecting the nucleic acids or polypeptides, and kits for diagnosing infection by a PWD circovirus, also are provided. Method for selecting compounds capable of modulating the viral infection are further provided. Pharmaceutical, including vaccine, compositions for preventing and/or treating viral infections caused by PWD circovirus and the use of vectors for preventing and/or treating diseases also are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: WyethInventors: Andre Jestin, Emmanuel Albina, Pierre Le Cann, Philippe Blanchard, Evelyne Hutet, Claire Arnauld, Catherine Truong, Dominique Mahe, Roland Cariolet, Francois Madec
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Patent number: 7169394Abstract: The invention provides an improved Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin vaccine composition, which advantageously provides immunity from infection after a single administration. The composition comprises an inactivated Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin and an adjuvant mixture, which, in combination, provide immunity from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection after a single administration, and elicit an immune response specific to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin and including cell-mediated immunity and local (secretory IgA) immunity. In a preferred embodiment, the adjuvant mixture comprises an acrylic acid polymer, most preferably CARBOPOL®, and a mixture of a metabolizable oil such as one or more unsaturated terpene hydrocarbons, preferably squalene or squalane, and a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer such as PLURONIC®. The vaccine composition may optionally include a preservative, preferably thimerosol and/or EDTA.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: WyethInventors: Hsien-Jue Chu, Wumin Li, Zhichang Xu
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Patent number: 7157089Abstract: The present invention relates to a vaccine for inducing an immune response to an antigen in a vertebrate (e.g., mammal) comprising an antigen and all or a portion of a stress protein or all or a portion of a protein having an amino acid sequence sufficiently homologous to the amino acid sequence of the stress protein to induce the immune response against the antigen. In a particular embodiment, the present invention relates to vaccines and compositions which induce a CTL response in a mammal comprising an antigen and all or a portion of a stress protein. In another embodiment, the invention relates to vaccines and compositions which induce an immune response to an influenza virus in a mammal comprising an antigen of the influenza virus and all or a portion of one or more stress proteins. The invention also relates to vaccines and compositions for inducing a CTL response to a tumor-associated antigen comprising a tumor-associated antigen and all or a portion of the stress protein.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Stressgen Biotechnologies CorporationInventors: Lee Mizzen, Lawrence S. D. Anthony, Huacheng Bill Wu, Marvin Siegel
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Patent number: 7122191Abstract: This invention provides submicron oil-in-water emulsions useful as a vaccine adjuvant for enhancing the immunogenicity of antigens. The present invention also provides vaccine compositions containing an antigen combined with such emulsions intrinsically or extrinsically. Methods of preparing the emulsions and vaccines are also provided by the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Paul Joseph Dominowski, Pamela K. Klose, Richard L. Krebs, Ramasamy M. Mannan
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Patent number: 7105574Abstract: The invention provides adjuvants, immunogenic compositions, and methods useful for polynucleotide-based vaccination and immune response. In particular, the invention provides an adjuvant of cytofectin:co-lipid mixture wherein cytofectin is GAP-DMORIE.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Vical IncorporatedInventor: Carl J. Wheeler
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Patent number: 7101555Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein having a molecular weight of 28 779 Da, and hybrid proteins containing at least portions of its sequence. These proteins may in particular be used in vaccines or for the detection of specific tuberculosis antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Institut PasteurInventors: Anne Laqueyrerie, Gilles Marchal, Pascale Pescher, Felix Romain
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Patent number: 7098303Abstract: Immunogenic polypeptides comprising hepatitis C virus (HCV) immunogens are described. The HCV immunogen comprises the amino acid sequence Xaa-Thr-Xaa-Val-Thr-Gly-Gly-Xaa-Ala-Ala-Arg-Thr-Thr-Xaa-Gly-Xaa-Xaa-Ser-Leu-P he-Xaa-Xaa-Gly-Xaa-Ser-Gln-Xaa-Ile-Gln-Leu-Ile (SEQ ID NO:8). The immunogenic polypeptide can be coupled to a bacterial toxoid, such as a diphtheria toxoid.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1995Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Amy J. Weiner, Michael Houghton
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Patent number: 7090854Abstract: The present invention provides a new antigenic type of chicken anaemia viruses (CAV). The CAV according to this invention is isolatable from turkeys in the field and its virulence for chickens is significantly reduced. This property makes these viruses particularly suited for preparing a live vaccine for protecting poultry against disease conditions resulting from CAV infection.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: Carla Christina Schrier, Henricus Johannes Maria Jagt
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Patent number: 7087236Abstract: A method of inducing either a TH1 polarized immune response, a TH2 polarized immune response or a combined TH1 and TH2 response to an antigen and associated vaccine formulations are disclosed. A method is provided for inducing a polarized TH1 response by parenteral administration of microparticles sized such that at least 50% of the microparticles are less than 5 ?m. The microparticles containing antigen entrapped or encapsulated by a biodegradable polymer. Additionally, a method is provided for inducing a polarized TH2 response by parenteral administration of nanoparticles sized such that at least 50% of the nanoparticles are less than 600 nm, the nanoparticles containing antigen entrapped or encapsulated by a biodegradable polymer. Vaccine formulations containing the B. pertussis antigens PTd, FHA or a combination of PTd and FHA are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Merrion Research I LimitedInventor: David J. Brayden
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Patent number: 7087234Abstract: The present invention relates to multivalent recombinant raccoon poxviruses, containing more than one exogenous gene inserted into either the thymidine kinase gene, the hemagglutinin gene, or a combination thereof. Disclosed is the use of the multivalent recombinant raccoon poxviruses as vaccines to immunize felines against subsequent challenge by feline pathogens. Also disclosed is a method of making a multivalent recombinant raccoon poxvirus by a recombination process involving the construction of an insertion vector into which the exogenous genes are inserted, and flanking the inserted genes are sequences which can recombine into the raccoon poxvirus thymidine kinase gene, or the hemagglutinin gene, or a combination thereof; introducing both the insertion vector containing the exogenous genes, and raccoon poxvirus into susceptible host cells; and selecting the recombinant raccoon poxvirus from the resultant plaques.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2001Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignees: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Fred W. Scott, Christopher K. Ngichabe, Liangbiao Hu, Joseph J. Esposito
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Patent number: 7052689Abstract: DNA encoding a therapeutically suitable glutaminase has been molecularly cloned. This allows one to obtain a polypeptide which is a therapeutically suitable glutaminase free of contaminating endotoxin. It has been found that this polypeptide is a potent anti-viral agent and when coupled to an anti-tumor monoclonal antibody is a potent anticancer agent. The glutaminase of the present invention is particularly useful for treating lung, breast and colon cancer cells and in the treatment of HIV-infected cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignees: ME Medical Enzymes AGInventors: Joseph Roberts, Thomas W MacAllister, Natarajan Sethuraman, Abbie G. Freeman
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Patent number: 7018638Abstract: The invention provides an improved Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin vaccine composition, which advantageously provides immunity from infection after a single administration. The composition comprises an inactivated Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin and an adjuvant mixture, which, in combination, provide immunity from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection after a single administration, and elicit an immune response specific to Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae bacterin and including cell-mediated immunity and local (secretory IgA) immunity. In a preferred embodiment, the adjuvant mixture comprises an acrylic acid polymer, most preferably CARBOPOL®, and a mixture of a metabolizable oil such as one or more unsaturated terpene hydrocarbons, preferably squalene or squalane, and a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymer such as PLURONIC®. The vaccine composition may optionally include a preservative, preferably thimerosol and/or EDTA.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2002Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: WyethInventors: Hsien-Jue Chu, Wumin Li, Zhichang Xu
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Patent number: 7008790Abstract: A method of immunization, and compositions therefor, are provided for substantially preventing or reducing the symptoms of at least one infectious disease and at least one chronic immune mediated disorder. An immunogenic challenge which supplements the normal childhood immunization schedule can help ensure the proper maturation of the immune system and prevent the development of chronic immune mediated disorders, such as immune-mediated diabetes or SLE.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2000Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Classen Immunotherapies, Inc.Inventor: John Barthelow Classen
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Patent number: 6984385Abstract: Immunological compositions and methods for making and using them. The compositions contain at least one antigen and at least one lipoprotein and optionally an adjuvant. The lipoprotein can itself be antigenic or immunogenic. The antigen can be influenza HA and the lipoprotein a recombinantly expressed product having an OspA leader for lipidation and PspA for the protein portion. The antigen can be OspC and the lipoprotein OspA. The components of the composition are co-administered. A potentiated immunological response is obtained by the compositions and methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Connaught Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Becker, Robert C. Huebner, Maryann Gray, Karen S. Biscardi, Lorne F. Erdile, Bruno Guy
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Patent number: 6974577Abstract: Inactivated scours vaccines for immunization and protection of bovine animals from disease caused by infection with bovine rotavirus and bovine coronavirus, which comprise and effective amount of at least one inactivated viral strain are described. Polyvalent inactivated vaccines further comprising an effective amount of an antigenic component which is protective against one or more additional pathogenic organisms or viruses are also disclosed. Said vaccines are prepared from one or more strains of rota- and coronavirus, C. perfringens Type C bacteria and E. coli bacteria, and combinations thereof. Preferably, a polyvalent inactivated vaccine is provided for parenteral administration. Passive immunity is achieved in neonatal calves via immunization of pregnant cows prior to birth.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2001Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Novartris AGInventors: Kelly Knape, Stephanie Dykstra, Mary Tinant
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Patent number: 6953581Abstract: The invention relates to antigenic preparations and vaccines directed against the porcine multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), comprising at least one porcine circovirus antigen, preferably type II, and at least one porcine parvovirus antigen.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Merial LimitedInventors: Gordon Moore Allan, Brian Martin Meehan, John Albert Ellis, George Steven Krakowka, Jean-ChrJistophe Francis Audonnet
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Patent number: 6951649Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for formulating a vaccine composition which comprises an anti-influenza vaccine, wherein the improvement of the vaccine composition is that the vaccine includes, as an additive, neuraminidase (NA). The base anti-influenza vaccine can be any commercially available anti-influenza vaccine. The improved composition can include and be administered with an adjuvant. The improved vaccine composition provides protection in a host, animal or human, against influenza infection, including viral replication and systemic infection.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Protein Sciences CorporationInventors: Gail Eugene Smith, James T. Matthews, Edwin D Kilbourne, Bert E. Johansson, Bethanie E. Wilkinson, Andrie I. Voznesensky, Craig S. Hackett, Franklin Volvovitz
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Patent number: 6946132Abstract: Vaccine compositions useful in inducing immune protection in a host against arthritogenic peptides involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis are disclosed. Each vaccine composition provides antigenic dnaJp1 peptide (by including the peptide or a polynucleotide which encodes the peptide) and, optionally, other peptide fragments of the microbial dnaJ protein and/or human homologs thereof. Methods for identifying persons who are predisposed to develop rheumatoid arthritis and methods for use of the inventive vaccines are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Dennis A. Carson, Salvatore Albani
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Patent number: 6936263Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of the major OprI lipoprotein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to elicit a Type-1 immune response towards a heterologous antigen. The invention relates specifically to the use of OprI—antigen fusion proteins to elicit the Type-1 response. More particularly, the present invention is directed to pharmaceutical formulations comprising OprI and/or OprI fusion proteins, optionally together with a suitable excipient, to stimulate the Th1 dependent, cellular immune response.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie VZWInventors: Hilde Revets, Pierre Cornelis, Patrick De Baetselier
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Patent number: 6893644Abstract: A vaccine formulation for the treatment or prophylaxis of hepatitis, especially hepatitis, especially hepatitis B, infections is provided comprising the hepatitis antigen and a suitable carrier such as alum in combination with 3-O-deacylated monophosphoryl lipid. A combination vaccines including the vaccine formulation are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2003Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Biologicals s.a.Inventors: Nathalie Marie-Josephe Claude Garcon-Johnson, Pierre Hauser, Clothilde Thiriart, Pierre Voet
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Patent number: 6875435Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inducing a CD8+ CTL response to a molecule in an individual deficient in CD4+ T cells comprising administering to the individual an hsp or a portion of an ATP binding domain of an hsp joined to the molecule. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of treating HIV in an individual deficient in CD4+ T cells comprising administering to the individual an hsp or a portion of an ATP binding domain of an hsp joined to the molecule. Also encompassed by the present invention is a method of inducing a CD4+ independent CTL response in an individual comprising administering to the individual a portion of an ATP binding domain of an hsp joined to the molecule. The present invention also relates to a method of inducing a CD8+ CTL response in an individual comprising administering to the individual a portion of an ATP binding domain of an hsp joined to the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2001Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignees: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Qian Huang, Joan F. L. Richmond, Bryan K. Cho, Deborah Palliser, Jianzhu Chen, Herman N. Eisen, Richard A. Young
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Publication number: 20040234551Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification and use of sequence elements present in the intergenic region of Cysteine Proteinase Genes, cpb, in L. mexicana and the observation that the identified sequences are involved in the control of stage-regulated gene expression. Principal uses include the preparation of vaccines.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Graham Herbert Coomes, Jeremy Charles Mottram, Darren Robert Brooks, Hubert Alexandre Denise
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Patent number: 6803035Abstract: A food product and method for treating and preventing diarrhea in a subject animal suffering from or susceptible to diarrhea. The method comprises administering an egg product to the subject animal wherein the egg product is obtained from a hyperimmunized avian.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Arkion Life SciencesInventors: Hellen Chaya Greenblatt, Orn Adalsteinsson, David A. Brodie, Henry Jacoby
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Publication number: 20040170648Abstract: The invention concerns a vaccine composition comprising two valences; (i) a first valence which is adjuvant-enhanced with aluminium hydroxide and (ii) a second valence which contains a polysaccharide of bacterial capsule comprising one or more —O— acetyl groups and which is not adsorbed with aluminium oxide due to the presence of a protecting compound which may be a phosphate, a citrate or a carbonate and which prevents said adsorptiuon. The first valence can be any vaccine valence. In one particular embodiment, the vaccine composition contains (i) the Hepatite A valence, adsorbed on aluminium hydroxide and (ii) the typhoid fever valence formed by the polysaccharide Vi of the Salmonella typhi capsule.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventor: Alain Francon
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Patent number: 6783765Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a vaccine against tuberculosis and other intracellular pathogens, this vaccine is targeted against intracellular pathogens, more particularly the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Salmonella in this case.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchInventors: Javed Naim Agrewala, Naresh Sharma
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Patent number: 6780420Abstract: The invention relates to an adjuvant product which is intended to improve the activity of a molecule when administered to a host, characterized in that it comprises at least one part of the P40 protein of Klebsiella pneumoniae or a protein having at least 80% homology with the P40 protein of Klebsiella pneumoniae. The invention also relates to nucleotide sequences which encode these peptides or proteins and to the use of these sequences as a medicament. More particularly, such DNA sequences can be used in compositions which are intended for immunization by the intramuscular or intradermal route.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Pierre Fabre MedicamentInventors: Hans Binz, Thierry Baussant, Jean-François Haeuw, Thien Nguyen Ngoc
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Publication number: 20040151734Abstract: A method of administering a vaccine to females to prevent or treat infections associated with pathogens which cause sexually transmitted diseases is described. The vaccine comprises one or more antigens for the prevention or treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, for example an HSV glycoprotein D or an immunological fragment thereof, and an adjuvant, especially a TH-1 inducing adjuvant. The use of the vaccine components for the formulation of a vaccine composition for the prevention or treatment of sexually transmitted diseases in female subjects is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: SmithKline Beecham Biologicals s.a.Inventors: Moncef Mohamed Slaoui, Pierre G. Vandepapeliere
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Patent number: 6770275Abstract: The present invention relates to live attenuated RTX-toxin producing bacteria of the family Pasteurellaceae, of which the attenuation is due to the fact that they produce RTX toxin in a non-activated form. The invention also relates to vaccines for the protection of mammals against infection with RTX-toxin producing bacteria of the family Pasteurellaceae, and to methods for the preparation of said live attenuated bacteria and vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 1997Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.Inventors: Ruud Philip Antoon Maria Segers, Johannes Franciscus Van Den Bosch, Joachim Frey
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Patent number: 6756040Abstract: The invention relates to a vaccine formulation for the prevention of Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib) infections and where the antigen is adsorbed onto aluminum phosphate. The invention also relates to a multivalent vaccines, that is a vaccine for the amelioration or treatment of more than one disease states. The present invention also relates to the production and use of such vaccines in medicine.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Biologicals s.a.Inventors: Julien Peetermans, Pierre Hauser
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Patent number: 6743430Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multicomponent low dose vaccine comprising a safe and immunogenically effective combination of a protective antigen component or components of clostridial organism, a protective antigen component of a non-clostridial organism and an adjuvant.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1995Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Inventors: Richard E. Parizek, Lonny E. Vlieger, Sharon A. Bryant, Stuart K. Nibbelink, Michael J. McGinley
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Patent number: 6723324Abstract: The present invention provides a new antigenic type of chicken anaemia viruses (CAV). The CAV according to this invention is isolatable from turkeys in the field and its virulence for chickens is significantly reduced. This property makes these viruses particularly suited for preparing a live vaccine for protecting poultry against disease conditions resulting from CAV infection.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Akzo Nobel NVInventors: Carla Christina Schrier, Henricus Johannes Maria Jagt
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Publication number: 20040067240Abstract: A B-subunit of a protein toxin selected from the B-subunit of E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin (EtxB) and the B-subunit of Vibrio cholerae toxin (CtxB) has a therapeutic effect against cell surface-expressed viral antigens and tumour antigens. In particular, the protein toxin may be used to treat an animal body, including human, suffering from a disease or condition associated with Epstein Barr Virus or suffering from neoplasia. The therapeutic agent may, additionally, comprise a cell surface-expressed antigen, for instance an Epstein Barr Virus latent membrane protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Andrew John Morgan, Andrew Douglas Wilson, Kong Wee Ong
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Patent number: 6703023Abstract: The genome sequences and the nucleotide sequences coding for the PWD circovirus polypeptides, such as the circovirus structural and non-structural polypeptides, vectors including the sequences, and cells and animals transformed by the vectors are provided. Methods for detecting the nucleic acids or polypeptides, and kits for diagnosing infection by a PWD circovirus, also are provided. Method for selecting compounds capable of modulating the viral infection are further provided. Pharmaceutical, including vaccines, compositions for preventing and/or treating viral infections caused by PWD circovirus and the use of vectors for preventing and/or treating diseases also are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des AlimentsInventors: André Jestin, Emmanuel Albina, Pierre Le Cann, Philippe Blanchard, Evelyne Hutet, Claire Arnauld, Catherine Truong, Dominique Mahe, Roland Cariolet, François Madec
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Patent number: 6682746Abstract: Disclosed herein is a serum-based adjuvanted vaccine which is substantially free of non-host albumin and the use thereof in reducing or preventing post-vaccination systemic reactions.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Inventors: Kristina J. Hennessy, Karen K. Brown, Jennifer K. Lane, Sandra L. Trump
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Patent number: 6676945Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein having a molecular weight of 28.779 Da, and hybrid proteins containing at least portions of its sequence. These proteins may in particular be used in vaccines or for the detection of specific tuberculosis antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Institut PasteurInventors: Anne Laqueyrerie, Gilles Marchal, Pascale Pescher, Felix Romain
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Patent number: 6645500Abstract: The invention provides a novel method for down-regulating the biological activity of osteoprotegerin ligand (OPGL, TRANCE) thereby rendering possible the treatment/amelioration of diseases characterized by excessive loss of bone mass, e.g. osteoporosis. Down-regulation is effected by inducing an immune response against OPGL in an individual in need thereof. Immune responses can be raised by classical immunization with immunogenic variants of OPGL or by nucleic acid immunization where the nucleic acids encode the OPGL variant. The invention also pertains to compositions, polypeptides and nucleic acids useful in the invention, as well as to vectors and transformed host cells useful in the preparation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1999Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: M & E Biotech A/SInventors: Torben Halkier, Jesper Haaning
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Avian infectious herpesvirus recombinants and recombinant vaccines prepared with the use of the same
Patent number: 6632664Abstract: An avian infectious recombinant herpesvirus is prepared by inserting a foreign gene, in particular a heterologous antigen gene, into an insertion site in an untranslated genetic region in the genome. A chicken vaccine comprising such a recombinant virus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Saitoh, Takashi Okuda