Broadly reactive opsonic antibodies that react with common staphylococcal antigens

摘要

The invention relates to the identification, making, and isolation of immunoglobulin and antigen that is useful to prevent, diagnose, or treat Staphylococcus infections. The invention further relates to an in vivo animal model for testing the efficacy of pharmaceutical compositions, including the pharmaceutical compositions of immunoglobulin and isolated antigen described herein.