Retrovirus agents MSRV1 and MSRV2 associated with multiple sclerosis
US5871996A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 6, 1995 |
| Grant date | Feb 16, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 6, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S435/912
- WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Composition including two pathogenic and/or infective agents associated with multiple sclerosis, namely a first agent which consists of a human virus possessing reverse transcriptase activity and related to a family of endogenous retroviral elements, or a variant of the virus, and a second agent, or a variant of the second agent, these two pathogenic and/or infective agents originating from the same viral strain chosen from the strains designated, respectively, POL-2 deposited with the ECACC on Jul. 22, 1992 under Accession Number V92072202 and MS7PG deposited with the ECACC on Jan. 8, 1993 under Accession Number V93010816, and from their variant strains.
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