US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on April 15 for "Detection of human leukocyte antigen-A*32:01 in connection with determining drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) and methods of treating bacterial infection in a subject with vancomycin-induced DRESS" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,663, issued on April 15, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Detection of human leukocyte antigen-A*32:01 in connection with determining drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) and methods of treating bacterial infection in a subject with vancomycin-induced DRESS" was invented by Elizabeth Phillips (Nashville, Tenn.), Simon Mallal (Nashville, Tenn.), Katherine Konvinse (Nashville, Tenn.) and Abha Chopra (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of detecting a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*32:01 allele in a subject as disclosed are useful, for example, to determine whether t...