Size determination of bacterial capsular oligosaccharides used to prepare conjugate vaccines

Vaccine

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 2802-2816

  Ravenscroft, Neil ^a   Averani, Giovanni ^a   Bartoloni, Antonella ^a   Berti, Stefania ^a   Bigio, Massimo ^a   Carinci, Valeria ^a   Costantino, Paolo ^a   D'Ascenzi, Sandro ^a   Giannozzi, Aldo ^a   Norelli, Francesco ^a   Pennatini, Carlo ^a   Proietti, Daniela ^a   Ceccarini, Costante ^a   Cescutti, Paola ^b  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biochimica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharide; Colorimetric assays; Conjugate vaccines; Hydrolysis; Oligosaccharide; Size determination

Indexed keywords

GLYCOCONJUGATE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONJUGATION; DRUG FORMULATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLORIMETRY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 0033575485     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(99)00092-4     Document Type: Article

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