Detection of Neisseria gonorrohoeae

US5173401A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karin Wolff · Germering, DE
• Anne Stern · Penzberg, DE
• Peter Buckel · Bernried, DE
• Erko Stackenbrandt · Dänischenhagen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 1990
• Grant date: Dec 22, 1992
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Q1/689
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An oligonucleotide probe specific for Neisseria gonorrhoeae is selected from the oligonucleotides RS2* and RS3*, RS2** and RS3**. It can have further nucleotides at its 5' end and/or 3' end. This probe is suitable for the specific detection of nucleic acids of the pathogenic species N. gonorrhoeae by hybrid formation under hybridization conditions.