Akzo Nobel obtains United States patent.Akzo Nobel Akzo Nobel is a multinational company, active in the fields of healthcare products, coatings and chemicals. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, and employs approximately 62,000 people. (Arnhem, Netherlands) has patented an equine infectious anemia equine infectious anemia n. A viral disease in horses marked by progressive anemia, a staggering gait, and fever. (EIA (Electronic Industries Alliance, Arlington, VA, www.eia.org) A membership organization founded in 1924 as the Radio Manufacturing Association. It sets standards for consumer products and electronic components. ) vaccine that provides immunity to mammals, especially equines, from infection with equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV EIAV Equine Infectious Anemia Virus ) and which allows differentiation between vaccinated and non-vaccinated, but exposed, mammals or equines. Preferably said vaccine encompasses at least one mutation in an EIAV which produces a non-functional gene in the vaccine virus that is always expressed in disease-producing wild-type EIA viruses. Additionally, said EIA vaccine virus cannot cause clinical disease in mammals or spread or shed to other mammals including equines. (US 6,585,978) |
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