Potency control of diphtheria component in adsorbed vaccines by in vitro neutralization tests

Biologicals

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 105-112

  Marcovistz, Rugimar ^a   Matos, Denise C S ^b   Georgini, Ricardo A ^b   Sakauchi, Dirce ^b  

^a Instituto de Technologia em Imunobiologicos   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diphtheria; DT vaccine; DTP vaccine; Quality control; ToBI test; Vero cell

Indexed keywords

ANATOXIN; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; TOXIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CYTOLOGY; DILUTION; DIPHTHERIA; ENZYME ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXIN BINDING INHIBITION TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERO CELL;

CAVIA; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0036628404     PISSN: 10451056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/biol.2002.0319     Document Type: Article

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