Potency requirements of rabies vaccines administered intradermally using the Thai Red Cross regimen: Investigation of the immunogenicity of serially diluted purified chick embryo cell rabies vaccine

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 3902-3907

  Beran, Jiri ^a   Honegr, Karel ^a   Banzhoff, Angelika ^b   Malerczyk, Claudius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b Chiron Vaccines   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intradermal; PCECV; Potency; Rabies; Thai Red Cross regimen

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCING CELL; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RED CROSS; SIDE EFFECT; THAILAND; VOLUNTEER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHICK EMBRYO; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; VERO CELLS;

EID: 19444363900     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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