pencicillin-binding protein, nucleic acid, antibody or antibody fragment, medicament, pharmaceutical composition, uses of at least one penicillin-binding protein or fragment or variant or fragment thereof, of at least one nucleic acid and of at least one antibody or antibody fragment, in vitro antibody detection methods directed against neisseria meningitidis infection from a penicillin-binding protein, nucleic acid, antibody or an antibody fragment, pharmaceutical composition of at least one penicillin-binding protein or fragment or variant or variant thereof, of at least one nucleic acid and at least one antibody directed against neisseria meningitidis infection from a biological sample of a mammal and in vitro diagnosis of neisseria miningitidis infection from a biological sample from a mammal and monoclonal antibody

摘要

The present invention is drawn to a penicillin-binding protein expressed by Neisseria meningitidis, or a fragment, or a variant, or a variant fragment thereof, or nucleic acids encoding them, or antibodies directed against them, as medicaments or in pharmaceutical compositions. The invention is also directed to the use of penicillin-binding proteins expressed by Neisseria meningitidis, or nucleic acids encoding them, or antibodies directed against them for the prophylactic and/or therapeutic immunotherapy of mammals, preferably human beings, against infection by Neisseria meningitidis and/or by a bacterial strain expressing a variant of a Neisseria meningitidis penicillin-binding protein.