Specific detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

US5378606A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Anne Stern · Penzberg, DE
• Karin Wolff · Germering, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 15, 1993
• Grant date: Jan 3, 1995
• Expiry date: Jun 15, 2013

Classification

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

Abstract

The present invention concerns a Neisseria gonorrhoeae-specific nucleic acid probe which has at least one of the nucleic acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO 1-15 as well as a method for the detection of the pathogenic Neisseria species N.gonorrhoeae using such a nucleic acid probe. The sequences shown in Sequence ID Nos. 1-15 correspond to or are complementary to partial regions of the 23S rRNA gene or to the spacer region located on the 3' side thereof.