Isolated broadly reactive opsonic immunoglobulin for treating a pathogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcus infection

摘要

The invention describes the identification, making, and isolation of immunoglobulin and antigen useful for preventing, diagnosing, and treating staphylococcal infections. The invention further describes an in vivo animal model useful for testing the efficacy of pharmaceutical compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions of immunoglobulin and isolated antigen.