Unexpected inefficiency of the European pharmacopoeia sterility test for detecting contamination in clostridial vaccines

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1710-1715

  Téllez, Sonia ^a   Casimiro, Ramiro ^b   Vela, Ana I ^a   Fernández Garayzábal, José Francisco ^a   Ezquerra, Remedios ^b   Latre, María V ^c   Briones, Victor ^a   Goyache, Joaquín ^a   Bullido, Rosario ^b   Arboix, Margarita ^b   Domínguez, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Agencia Espanola del Medicamento   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adverse reaction; Clostridium sordellii; Contamination; Pharmacopoeia; Sterility test; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; RUMINANTS; SPAIN;

EID: 33751576192     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.12.037     Document Type: Article

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