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7628995 Outer membrane vesicles and uses thereof  
The present invention discloses a Gram negative bacterium in which the expression of a protein involved in LPS transport to the outer membrane is functionally downregulated such that the level of...
7618636 Antigenic meningococcal peptides  
WO99/36544 discloses a large number of proteins from Neisseria Meningitidis . The present invention relates to fragments of those proteins which comprise at least one antigenic determinant....
7604810 Conserved Neisserial antigens  
To ensure maximum cross-strain recognition and reactivity, regions of proteins that are conserved between different Neisserial species, serogroups and strains can be used. The invention provides...
7585510 Vaccine  
The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by Neisseria , the vaccine including one or more immunogenic components for Neisseria serogroups, as well as antibodies to...
7524509 Proteosome-liposaccharide vaccine adjuvant  
An adjuvant complex composed of bacterial outer membrane protein proteosomes complexed to bacterial liposaccharide is prepared to contain the component parts under a variety of conditions. The...
7521549 Compounds  
The invention provides BASB041, 43, 44 and 48 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding BASB041, 43, 44 and 48 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques....
7504111 Gonococcal proteins and nucleic acids  
The invention provides proteins from gonococcus ( Neisseria gonorrhoeae ), including amino acid sequences, the corresponding nucleotide sequences, expression data, and serological data. The...
7485304 Non-toxic mucosal adjuvant  
A non-toxic mucosal adjuvant is provided which may be admixed with further antigens to provide a vaccine administrable to mucosal surfaces in organisms including man. Preferably, the non-toxic...
7422754 Neisseria meningitidis compounds and anti-infection applications thereof  
The invention provides novel Neisseria meningitides (Nm) polypeptides and polynucleotides which cover the Nm genetic diversity, and which correspond to polypeptide of Nm outer membrane and/or...
7399840 Proteosome influenza vaccine  
Improved forms of vaccines which comprise proteosomes and protein antigens are described. Vaccines which contain influenza HA as the antigen are used for illustration as to demonstrate efficacy....
7384645 Outer membrane vesicles from gram negative bacteria and use as a vaccine  
A composition is prepared from a mixture of different vesicles, such as outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and vaccines are based thereon. Another composition comprises in a single vesicle a...
7357932 Surface protein of Neisseria bacteria  
Present invention provides a monoclonal antibody binding to Neisseria bacteria and its target antigen Ag473, which include the sequences of its polynucleotide and its amino acid, wherein the ...
7273611 Proteinase K resistant surface protein of neisseria meningitidis  
The identification of a highly conserved, immunologically accessible antigen on the surface of Neisseria facilitates treatment, prophylaxis, and diagnosis of Neisseria diseases. This antigen is...
7250172 Vaccine and compositions for the prevention and treatment of neisserial infections  
The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides, polynucleotides and vaccines for use against Neisseria gonorrhoeae colonization or infection. The vaccines contain an immunogenic amount...
7235242 IgA1 protease fragment as carrier peptides  
The present invention is concerned with a fragment of IgA1-protease having 40 to 200 amino acid residues and comprising at least 40 amino acids of an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1,...
7189405 Peptide mimics of conserved gonococcal epitopes and methods and compositions using them  
The present invention relates to peptide mimics of a conserved gonococcal epitope of Neisseria gonorrhoeae , which epitope is not found on human blood group antigens. This invention also relates...
7112332 Oral or intranasal vaccines using hydrophobic complexes having proteosomes and lipopolysaccharides  
An immunogenic complex, essentially consisting of neisserial outer membrane protein proteosomes hydrophobically complexed to native purified bacterial lipopolysaccaride and formulated in accordance...
7081244 Neisserial vaccine compositions and methods  
Methods and compositions for the treatment of microbial infection, and in particular meningococcal disease, comprise a commensal Neisseria or an extract of a commensal Neisseria . Further...
7070781 Nontoxic mucosal adjuvant  
A non-toxic mucosal adjuvant is provided which may be admixed with further antigens to provide a vaccine administrable to mucosal surfaces in organisms including man. Preferably, the non-toxic...
7018637 Multi-oligosaccharide glycoconjugate bacterial meningitis vaccines  
Multivalent immunogenic molecules comprise a carrier molecule containing at least one functional T-cell epitope and multiple different carbohydrate fragments each linker to the carrier molecule and...
6994860 Neisseria meningitidis antigenic polypeptides, corresponding polynucleotides and protective antibodies  
The invention provides Neisseria meningitidis BASB030 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding BASB030 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also...
6936261 Vaccines for broad spectrum protection against diseases caused by Neisseria meningitidis  
The present invention generally provides methods and vaccines for the prevention of diseases caused by Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, particularly serogroup B strains.
6913753 Incapacitated whole-cell immunogenic bacterial compositions  
The invention features incapacitated whole cell bacterial immunogenic compositions produced by infecting a bacterium with Lys minus bacteriophage, which are deficient in the lysin protein. Lys...
6887482 Antigenic iron repressible proteins from N. meningitidis related to the hemolysin family of toxins  
An isolated, antigenic polypeptide comprises a segment having at least fifty amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of the segment is present in N. meningitidis , and is different from, but...
6835384 Nucleic acids and polypeptides specific of the neisseria genus pathogenic strains  
The invention concerns nucleic acids coding for polypeptides specific of the Neisseria genus pathogenic strains, the corresponding polypeptides, and their diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
6821521 Multicomponent meningococcal vaccine  
A composition comprising Transferrin binding proteins A and B is described (TbpA and TbpB). The composition is suitable for use in vaccines and for treatment of Gram negative bacterial infection,...
6803042 Oral or intranasal vaccines using hydrophobic complexes having proteosomes and lipopolysaccharides  
An immunogenic complex, essentially consisting of neisserial outer membrane protein proteosomes hydrophobically complexed to native purified bacterial lipopolysaccharide and formulated in...
6797273 Neisseria meningitidis antigen  
The invention provides BASB053 polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding BASB053 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are diagnostic,...
6770284 Polypeptides and polynucleotides BASB040 from neisseria meningitidis and vaccine comprising said polypeptides and polynucleotides  
The invention provides BASB040 polypeptides and polynticleotides from Neisseria meningitidis encoding BASB040 polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques....
6756493 Nucleic acid sequence and uses thereof  
The invention discloses the Neisseria spp. NGSP polypeptide, polypeptides derived therefrom (NGSP-derived polypeptides), nucleotide sequences encoding said polypeptides, and antibodies that...
6743607 Production of complex carbohydrates  
Compositions and methods for making complex carbohydrates in a bacterial production cell are disclosed. The complex carbohydrates that can be made include oligosaccharides and polysaccharides of...
6709660 Meningococcal antigens  
The invention provides proteins from Neisseria meningitidis (strains A & B), including amino acid sequences, the corresponding nucleotide sequences, expression data, and serological data. The...
6664094 Neisserial vaccine free of immunologically functional PIII or class 4 proteins  
This invention relates to mutants of Neisseria useful for vaccine preparation. Specifically this invention relates to mutants of Neisseria containing mutations in a major outer membrane protein...
6613336 Immunogenic conjugates comprising a group B meningococcal porin and an H. influenzae polysaccharide  
Disclosed is an H. influenzae type b polysaccharide-meningococcal outer membrane protein conjugate, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and the use thereof to induce an immune response to H....
6558677 Vaccine against gram negative bacteria  
A mucosal vaccine for Neisseria based on native outer membrane vesicles (NOMV) prepared from genetically engineered vaccine strain and unexposed to detergents is described. Methods for extending...
6548287 Non-pyrogenic bacterial strains and use of the same  
The present invention provides gram-negative bacterial strains that produce substantially pure non-pyrogenic lipopolysaccharide or lipid A. The present invention also relates to a use of said...
6544518 Vaccines  
The present invention relates to adjuvant compositions which are suitable to be used in vaccines. In particular, the adjuvant compositions of the present invention comprises a saponin and an...
6476201 Methods for the production of non-covalently complexed and multivalent proteosome sub-unit vaccines  
A continuous method for preparing proteosome-amphiphilic determinant vaccines for parenteral or mucosal administration using diafiltration or ultrafiltration technology. The amphiphilic...
6348198 Lactoferrin receptor protein  
An isolated and purified lactoferrin receptor protein is isolated and purified from bacterial pathogens, including Moraxella and Neisseria, and has a molecular weight of between about 70,000 and...
6348332 DNA molecule encoding gonorrhoeal hybrid PIA/PIB protein  
The present invention relates to a gene sequence coding for hybrid Protein I of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and cloning vector and host organisms containing same. Also disclosed are oligonucleotides...
6277382 Hemoglobin receptors from neisseriae  
The present invention relates to novel bacterial hemoglobin receptor proteins and genes that encode such proteins. The invention is directed toward the isolation, characterization, diagnostic and...
6277379 Use of purified invaplex from gram negative bacteria as a vaccine  
A novel composition comprising Invaplex from gram-negative bacteria is described and is effective as a vaccine against gram-negative bacterial infection.
6210663 Methods of augmenting mucosal immunity through systemic priming and mucosal boosting  
A method for inducing and enhancing mammalian mucosal immunity includes the steps of first administering to a mammal via a non-mucosal route a suitable amount of a priming vaccine composition which...
6180111 Vaccine delivery system  
The invention relates to a hyperblebbing strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which produces large amounts of blebs useful for production of blebosomes containing antigens for use as a vaccine delivery...
6146635 System for the expression of heterologous antigens as fusion proteins  
6086896 Antigenic iron repressible protein from N. meningitidis related to the hemolysin family of toxins  
An isolated, antigenic polypeptide comprises a segment having at least fifty amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of the segment is present in N. meningitidis, and is different from, but...
6060058 Vaccine for conferring bacterial immunity containing lactoferrin receptor protein  
A vaccine which provides protective immunity against a bacterial pathogen containing a purified lactoferrin receptor protein is provided.
6045805 Oligosaccharide derived from an antigenic polysaccharide obtained from a pathogenic agent  
An oligosaccharide derived from an antigen polysaccharide obtained from a pathogenic agent, a method for its preparation, and its use particularly as a vaccinal agent. The oligosaccharide is...
6013267 Method for the high level expression, purification and refolding of the outer membrane group B porin proteins from Neisseria meningitidis  
The present invention relates, in general, to a method for the high level expression of the outer membrane protein meningococcal group B porin proteins and fusion proteins thereof. In particular,...
5997881 Method of making non-pyrogenic lipopolysaccharide or A  
The present invention provides gram-negative bacterial strains that produce substantially pure non-pyrogenic lipopolysaccharide or lipid A. The present invention also relates to a use of said...
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