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US 5,716,793 AGranted
Method for diagnosing a patient for chlamydia
AssigneeAnimal House, Inc.
InventorsAlex Bruce MacDonald, Elizabeth S. Stuart, Ling Ling An, Myron D. Whipkey
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Abstract
A method of detecting chlamydia in a extracellular sample is provided which comprises contacting the sample with an idiotypic antibody to GLXA to form an immunocomplex and detecting the immunocomplex.
Claims10
A method for immunochemically diagnosing Chlamydia infection in a mammal, comprising:
- contacting an extracellular biological fluid from said mammal with an antibody which specifically binds to a genus-specific chlamydial glycolipid exoantigen;
- measuring any specific binding immunocomplexes formed between said antibody and any said chlamydial glycolipid exoantigen present in said fluid;
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- comparing the amount of said immunocomplexes formed in said fluid with the amount of immunocomplexes formed by a control fluid from a mammal free of said Chlamydia infection, wherein a greater amount of immunocomplexes in said fluid than that found in said control fluid indicates the presence of said Chlamydia infection in said mammal.
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