Article: Publication No. WO/2009/094955 Published on Aug. 6, Assigned to Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia for Dengue NS1 Antigen Quantification Method (Cuban Inventors)

GENEVA, Aug. 13 -- Gilda Lemos Perez, Maria Elena Fernandez De Cossio Dorta-Duque, Tamara Diaz Argudin, Julio Raul Fernandez Masso, Daniel Octavio Palenzuela Gardon, Lidia Ines Novoa Perez and Gerardo Enrique Guillen Nieto - all from Cuba, have developed a method for quantification of the dengue NS1 antigen on an immunochromatographic strip.

The patent has been assigned to Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia, Ciudad De La Habana, Cuba.

According to an abstract posted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the invention relates to "one-step instrument-free method for the quantification of the dengue NS1 antigen in early acute phase, present in serum, plasma and blood ...

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