Wei W Ching from Lexington, KY

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Orientia Tsutsugamushi Truncated Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein (R47) And (R56) Vaccines Diagnostics And Therapeutics For Scrub Typhus And Hiv Infection
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US Patent:

20060039920, Feb 23, 2006
Filed:

May 15, 2003
Appl. No.:

10/438345
Inventors:

Wei Ching - Bethesda MD, US
Hong Ge - N. Bethesda MD, US
International Classification:

A61K 39/21
A61K 39/02
G01N 33/554
G01N 33/569
US Classification:

424190100, 435007320, 424188100
Abstract:

A scrub typhus vaccine comprising truncated r47 protein and truncated r56 protein is disclosed. Vaccines composed of r56 protein variants are also disclosed. Methods of reducing HIV viral loads using r47 and r56 proteins and antibodies raised against r47 and r56 are also disclosed.

Orientia Tsutsugamushi Truncated Recombinant Outer Membrane Protein (R47) And (R56) Vaccines Diagnostics And Therapeutics For Scrub Typhus
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US Patent:

20080044806, Feb 21, 2008
Filed:

Oct 23, 2007
Appl. No.:

11/876997
Inventors:

Wei Mei Ching - Bethesda MD, US
Hong Ge - Gaithersburg MD, US
Chien-Chung Chao - N. Bethesda MD, US
International Classification:

C12Q 1/00
G01N 33/48
US Classification:

435004000, 436063000
Abstract:

A scrub typhus diagnostic method and vaccine using a composition comprising truncated r47 protein and truncated r56 protein is disclosed. Vaccines composed of r56 protein variants are also disclosed. Methods of reducing HIV viral loads using r47 and r56 proteins and antibodies raised against r47 and r56 are also disclosed.