US 8,507,196 B1 · Nucleic acid probe of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and a method and kit employing this probe for detecting the presence of nucleic acid of HIV-1

Abstract

This invention is in the field of lymphadenopathy virus. This invention relates to a diagnostic means and method to detect the presence of DNA, RNA, or antibodies of the lymphadenopathy retrovirus associated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome or of the lymphadenopathy syndrome by the use of DNA fragments or the peptides encoded by said DNA fragments. The invention further relates to the DNA fragments, vectors comprising them, and the proteins expressed.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A kit for determining the absence of HIV-1 RNA in a biological sample comprising:

a labeled HIV-1 nucleic acid;
a first control sample comprising an HIV-1 RNA;
and
a second control sample that does not comprise HIV-1 RNA;
wherein the kit determines the absence of HIV-1 RNA in the biological sample.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

08/051,226Filed 23 Apr 1993 · continuation

Priority

GB 832480015 Sep 1983

Granted

13 Aug 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

C07K 14/005
Peptides having more than 20 amino acids; Gastrins; Somatostatins; Melanotropins; Derivatives thereof: from viruses
C12Q 1/703
For retroviruses: viruses associated with AIDS
C12N 2740/16022
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV: new viral proteins or individual genes, new structural or functional aspects of known viral proteins or genes
C07K
Peptides

Family

Application06/558,109Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 5 Dec 1983

Application06/706,562Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 28 Feb 1985

Application06/771,248Parent of this division · filed 30 Aug 1985

Application06/771,230Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Aug 1985

Application07/158,652Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Feb 1988

Application07/499,210Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Mar 1990

Application07/999,410Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Dec 1992

US 7,217,508 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 15 May 2007

Application07/158,652Parent of this division

Application07/999,410Parent of this continuation

Application06/771,230Parent of this continuation-in-part

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Nucleic acid probe of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and a method and kit employing this probe for detecting the presence of nucleic acid of HIV-1

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Nucleic acid probe of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), and a method and kit employing this probe for detecting the presence of nucleic acid of HIV-1

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Abstract

Claims4