Patent ID: 6391563
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: C07K,G01N

Abstract:
A process for the determination of the presence or concentration of a polyepitopic antigen in a specimen, comprising:contacting the specimen with a first reagent comprising one or more monoclonal antibodies to form a conjugate comprising monoclonal antibodies in the first reagent and an antigen in the specimen having epitopes to which said monoclonal antibodies are immunoreactive; contacting the conjugate so formed with a second reagent comprising one or more monoclonal antibodies to form a conjugate comprising the antigen, the monoclonal antibodies from the first reagent and the monoclonal antibodies from the second reagent, wherein one of the first and second reagents comprises two different monoclonal antibodies and the antibodies in the first reagent and the antibodies in the second reagent consist of three different monoclonal antibodies reactive with different epitopes on said antigen; and detecting the conjugate comprising the antigen and the three different monoclonal antibodies.