Live vaccine against Brucellosis
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsMikeljon P. Nikolich, David L. Hoover, Richard L. Warren, Luther E. Lindler, Ted L. Hadfield, Gerhardt G. Schurig, Stephen M. Boyle, John R. McOulston, Nammalwar Sriranganathan
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Abstract
Live Brucella vaccines and methods for preparing the live vaccines protective against brucellosis are described. The vaccines are prepared by introducing a deletion in the rfbU gene of a strain of Brucella which results in attenuation of the strain while retaining the desired immunogenicity to initiate a protective immunogenic response. Other strains with varying levels of attenuation are described.
Claims13
An isolated Brucella DNA fragment havving the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 modified to contain a non-reverting deletion of nucleotides from position 1063 to 1670, which fragment when stably inserted into a Brucella cell in a Brucella vaccine will result in a Brucella vaccine that does not cause seroconversion in a vaccinee exposrd thereto.
A recombinant DNA construct comprising:
- (i) a vector, and
- (ii) an isolated Brucella DNA fragment having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 modified to contain a stable non-reverting deletion of nucleotides from position 1063 to position 1670, which fragment when stably inserted into a Brucella cell in a Brucella vaccine will result in a Brucella vaccine that does not cause seroconversion in a vaccinee exposed thereto.
A host cell transformed with a recombinant DNA construct comprising:
- (i) a vector, and
- (ii) an isolated Brucella DNA fragment having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 modified to contain a stable non-reverting deletion of nucleotides from position 1063 to position 1670, which fragment when stably inserted into a Brucella cell in a Brucella vaccine will result in a Brucella vaccine that does not cause seroconversion in a vaccinee exposed thereto.
Host cell WRRP1, having ATCC accession number PTA-3753.
Host cell WRR51, having ATCC accession number PTA-3754.
An isolated Brucella DNA fragment comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1.
An isolated Brucella DNA fragment comprising at least 30 contiguous nucleotides of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.