An immuno-diffusion assay to assess the protective antigen content of anthrax vaccine

Vaccine

Volumn 23, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 4517-4520

  Adams, Trudy ^a   Osborn, Sancha ^a   Rijpkema, Sjoerd ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Protective antigen; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX VACCINE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; DRUG QUALITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNODIFFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEEP;

ANTHRAX VACCINES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNODIFFUSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 22044457185     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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