Patent ID: 9637537
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P,C07K,G01N

Claim:
1. A monoclonal antibody or antibody fragment which specifically binds to a neutralizing conformational epitope of H7 hemagglutinin, wherein (a) the neutralizing conformational epitope comprises amino acid 136Ser, 137Gly and amino acid 227Glu of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 and wherein the monoclonal antibody is monoclonal antibody 11B9 as produced by hybridoma 11B9 which is deposited with CellBank Australia with Accession Number CBA20120022 or (b) the neutralizing conformational epitope comprises amino acid 175Lys and amino acid 227Glu of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2 and wherein the monoclonal antibody is monoclonal antibody 62 as produced by hybridoma 62 which is deposited with CellBank Australia with Accession Number CBA20120023.