Antibody response of patients after postexposure rabies vaccination with small intradermal doses of purified chick embryo cell vaccine or purified vero cell rabies vaccine

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 693-698

  Briggs, D J ^a   Banzhoff, A ^b   Nicolay, U ^c   Sirikwin, S ^d   Dumavibhat, B ^e   Tongswas, S ^e   Wasi, C ^e  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chiron Behring GmbH & Co   (Germany)

^c SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^d Bamrasnaradura Hospital   (Thailand)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Administration and dosage; Adverse effects; Antibody formation; Chick embryo; Comparative study; Rabies vaccine; Thailand; Vero cells, immunology

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RABIES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INJECTION PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RABIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THAILAND; TISSUE CULTURE; VACCINATION; VERO CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; THAILAND; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0034046490     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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