CHIMERIC PROTEIN USED FOR LYME-BORRELIOSIS DIAGNOSTICS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC C07K14/20 C07K19/00 C12N15/31 C12N15/63 G01N33/53 A61K39/116 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: inventions relate to chimeric proteins, nucleic acid, coding such a protein, an expression cassette, providing the expression of nucleic acid, a vector, including the expression cassette, a method of diagnostics and a set for diagnostics. The characterised chimeric Borrelia protein includes at least one sequence of an extracellular domain of the VlsE Borrelia protein of the first type, corresponding to a certain strain, and at least one sequence of IR6 area of the VlsE Borrelia protein of the second type or Borrelia of the first type, but corresponding to a strain, different from the strain of the first type, with Borrelia being selected from Borrelia stricto-sensu, Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii.

EFFECT: claimed inventions make it possible to carry out diagnostics of Lyme-borreliosis with an increased specificity and sensitivity.

15 cl, 8 tbl, 7 ex