US 7,465,459 B2
Piroplasmid vaccine
Erik de Vries, Rhenen (Netherlands); Fasila Razzia Gaffar, Amsterdam (Netherlands); Ana Patricia Yatsuda, Utrecht (Netherlands); and Theodorus Cornelis Schaap, Beugen (Netherlands)
Assigned to Universiteit Utrecht Holding B.V., Utrecht (Netherlands)
Appl. No. 10/571,667
PCT Filed Sep. 14, 2004, PCT No. PCT/EP2004/052169
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 11, 2007,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/026199, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 24, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 03020898 (EP), filed on Sep. 14, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2007/0253974 A1, Nov. 01, 2007
Int. Cl. A61K 39/00 (2006.01); A61K 39/018 (2006.01); A61K 38/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12N 1/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C07K 1/00 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 424—270.1  [424/269.1; 435/252.3; 435/254.2; 435/320.1; 435/325; 530/300; 530/350; 536/23.1] 13 Claims
 
1. An isolated protein comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of:
SEQ ID NO: 2 and
immunogenic fragments of SEQ ID NO: 2,
wherein said protein elicits the production of antibodies that interfere with invasion by Babesia bovis into erythrocytes.