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US 5,489,511 AGranted
Specific and sensitive diagnostic test for Lyme disease
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
InventorsWarren J. Simpson, Tom Schwan, Claude Garon
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Abstract
A sensitive DNA probe for detecting infection by Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is provided.
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A nucleic acid probe specific for Borrelia burgdorferi DNA and not reactive with other Borrelia DNAs wherein said probe consists of pSPR14, pSPR13 and pSPR9 as shown in FIG. 1 and hybridizes with the repeated DNA sequence contained in Borrelia burgdorferi supercoiled circular plasmids which are present in multiple copies and in Borrelia burgdorferi linear plasmids.
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