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Vaccine containing a campylobacter bacterium having an enhanced antigenic property

US5869066A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 30, 1997
Grant dateFeb 9, 1999
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Expiry dateMay 30, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S435/975
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

This invention relates generally to in vitro methods for inducing or enhancing expression of enteric bacterial antigens and/or virulence factors thereby producing antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria, to methods for using antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria and to vaccines comprising antigenically enhanced enteric bacteria. Further, a vaccine comprising a Campylobacter bacterium having en enhanced antigenic property is disclosed. The culture medium conditions comprise 0.05% to 3% bile or 0.025% to 0.6% of one or more bile acids or salts. In addition a divalent cation chelator can also be included in the culture medium. The bacteria culture is in a growth phase at early log phase and between early log phase and stationary phase. The enhanced antigenic property is a higher level of an immunogenic antigen when compared to the antigenic property of the same bacteria grown on brain heart infusion broth.

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