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Swine Hepatitis E Virus Available For Use in Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis E

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the cause of Hepatitis E, a liver disease that occurs primarily in developing countries due to fecal contaminated drinking water. Outbreaks of HEV infection have caused epidemics in Africa, Central and Southeast Asia and Mexico and cases of the disease have also been reported sporadically in more developed countries. Hepatitis...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Suzanne Emerson, Robert Purcell, Xiang-jin Meng

Keywords(s): DC5BXX, DC5XXX, DCXXXX, Duke DNA Project, DXXXXX, e, Hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis D, Hepatitis E, HEV, PCT/US98/14665, Swine, THEREOF, UAXXXX, USES, virus

Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Collaboration, Collaboration Sought > Licensing, TherapeuticArea > Rare / Neglected Diseases, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Vaccines

Recombinant Proteins of the Swine Hepatitis E Virus and Their Uses as a Vaccine and Diagnostic Reagents for Medical and Veterinary Applications

This invention is based on the discovery of the swine hepatitis E virus (swine HEV), the first animal strain of HEV identified and characterized, and its ability to infect across species. The inventors have found that the swine HEV is widespread in the general pig population in the United States and other countries and that swine HEV can infect non-human...

Published: 7/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Xiang-jin Meng, Robert Purcell, Suzanne Emerson

Keywords(s): DA4BXX, DAXXXX, DC5BXX, DCXXXX, DXXXXX, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis D, Hepatitis E

Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Application > Diagnostics, Application > Vaccines, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease