Patent ID: 6352843
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: A61K,C07K,C12Q,G01N

Abstract:
An isolated polynucleotide segment comprising a nucleic acid sequence that is identical to SEQ ID NO:1, except that, over the entire length corresponding to SEQ ID NO:1, nn nucleotides are substituted, inserted or deleted, wherein nn satisfies the following expressionnn&lE;xnâˆ’(xnÂ·y) wherein xn is the total number of nucleotides in SEQ ID NO:1, y is 0.70, and wherein any non-integer product of xn and y is rounded down to the nearest integer before subtracting the product from xn; wherein the nucleic acid sequence is not genomic DNA and wherein the nucleic acid sequence detects Staphylococcus aureus by hybridization.