Patent ID: 9651543
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G01N,Y02A

Claim:
1. A method of identifying an antigen from a pathogen, which method comprises (a) providing an adenoviral vector array comprising two or more different adenoviral vectors, wherein each adenoviral vector comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding a different antigen of a pathogen, (b) administering each of the adenoviral vectors of the adenoviral vector array to a separate mammal, such that the nucleic acid sequence is expressed and the antigen is produced in the mammal, (c) infecting each mammal with the pathogen, and (d) screening the infected mammal for onset of a disease caused by the pathogen, wherein the absence in the infected mammal of a disease caused by the pathogen indicates that the adenoviral vector encodes an antigen of the pathogen, whereupon the antigen is identified.