Polypeptide useful for the preparation of antimalarial vaccines and of diagnostic kits for the detection of malarial affections
US5225530A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 4, 1991 |
| Grant date | Jul 6, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 4, 2011 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A50/30
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Polypeptide useful for the preparation of antimalarial vaccines and of diagnostic kits for the detection of antisporozoite antibodies in clinical samples of malariated persons, constituted by: a synthetic peptide, which repeates the region I of P. falciparum and by a variable number of repetitive tetrapeptide units of CS protein of P. falciparum linked to each other by an amidic bond between the tail proline of I region and the head asparagine of the first tetrapeptide.
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