Patent ID: 8632985

Claim:
A method of detecting a human C-type lectin comprising SEQ ID NO: 2, the method comprising: contacting a sample with a diagnostically effective amount of an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof able to specifically bind to said human C-type lectin, allowing, if a human C-type lectin comprising SEQ ID NO 2 is present in the sample, the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof to bind to the human C-type lectin comprising SEQ ID NO 2, and determining whether the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof is bound, wherein the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof comprises: a heavy chain variable region comprising the variable region of a peptide selected form the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:9, and SEQ ID NO: 11; and a light chain variable region comprising the variable region of SEQ ID NO:13.