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DsRNA-based prevention of viral escape

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5141799

This patent describes a method of pretesting an animal or animal cells susceptible to human retroviral infection against viral-induced pathology secondary to antigenic drift, as evidenced by molecular rearrangement in the viral particle structure. It comprises: exposing the animal or cells isolated from the animal to a mismatched dsRNA which is a complex of a polyinosinate and a polycytidylate containing from 1 in 5 to 2 in 30 uracil or guanadine bases.

Assignee:
HEM Research Inc., Rockville, MD (USA)
Patent Number(s):
A; US 4963532
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-242341
OSTI ID:
5141799
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English