Method for serological typing using type-specific antigens

US5935778A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Cristoph Seidel · Weilheim, DE
• Ursula-Henrike Wienhues-Thelen · Krailling, DE
• Urban Schmitt · Oberhausen, DE
• Gunther Jung · Tübingen, DE
• Hans-Georg Ihlenfeldt · Iffeldorf, DE
• Wolfgang Kraas · Tübingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 10, 1999
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S436/82
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for typing antibodies in a sample liquid by means of type-specific antigens and in particular a method for typing antibodies to the hepatitis C virus and peptide antigens suitable for this.