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PARVOVIRUS RECEPTORS AND METHOD OF USE
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E-019-1993/0
Unlicensed
Description of Invention:
The claimed invention provides a method of detecting the presence of a parvovirus in a sample. Parvoviruses infect animals and man. In man, the only known pathogenic member of this family is parvovirus B19. The inventors have identified the parvovirus B19 receptor which provides for a method to diagnose, prevent, and treat parvovirus infection utilizing the binding affinity for the receptor.

Inventors:
N Young,
K Brown (NHLBI).

Patent Status:

Serial No. 08/034,132 filed 22 Mar 1993;
U.S. Patent 5,449,608 issued 12 Sep 1995.

Portfolios:
Infectious Diseases -Therapeutics-Diagnostics-Viral-Non-AIDS (only).





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Email: reichmau@mail.nih.gov,
Fax: (301) 402-0220.


P antigen, Receptor, Parvovirus B19, Diagnostic
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