Compounds and methods for treatment and diagnosis of Chlamydial infection
AssigneeCorixa Corporation
InventorsAjay Bhatia, Peter Probst, Erika Jean Stromberg
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Abstract
Compounds and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of Chlamydial infection are disclosed. The compounds provided include polypeptides that contain at least one antigenic portion of a Chlamydia antigen and DNA sequences encoding such polypeptides. Pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines comprising such polypeptides or DNA sequences are also provided, together with antibodies directed against such polypeptides. Diagnostic kits containing such polypeptides or DNA sequences and a suitable detection reagent may be used for the detection of Chlamydial infection in patients and in biological samples.
Claims8
A method of stimulating an immune response, said method comprising administering a composition comprising an isolated polypeptide having at least 98% identity to the entirety of SEQ ID NO:
- 140, and thereby stimulating an immune response specific for the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:
- 140.
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