Method and substances for diagnosis and therapy of sepsis and sepsis-like systemic infections

US6756483B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• B.R.A.H.M.S GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Bergmann · Berlin, DE
• Joachim Struck · Berlin, DE
• Wolfgang Weglöhner · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 29, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2004
• Expiry date: May 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2333/585
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Uses of recombinant procalcitonin 3-116 in the diagnosis and therapy of septic diseases and the measurement of prohormones other than procalcitonin, and of dipeptidyl peptidase IV, as biomarkers in the diagnosis of sepsis.