Methods of detecting hepatitis A virus

US5516630A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services · US

Inventors

• John R. Ticehurst · Kensington, US
• David Baltimore · Pasadena, US
• Stephen M. Feinstone · Boyds, US
• Robert H. Purcell · Boyds, US
• Vincent Racaniello · Boston, US
• Bahige M. Baroudy · Westfield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 1991
• Grant date: May 14, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 6, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A50/30
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Methods for producing HAV cDNA, products thereof, and uses thereof, are described. HAV cDNA is produced, for example, by reverse transcribing HAV RNA and subsequently inserting the HAV cDNA into bacterial plasmids by genetic-engineering techniques. Transformed bacteria are then cloned and cultured to produce replicated chimetic plasmids containing the HAV cDNA. Such HAV cDNA is useful in assaying for the presence of HAV and in the production of HAV antigen and in the production of antibodies against HAV.