Toxoid flocculation assay by laser light-scattering

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 318, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 138-146

  Iwaki, Masaaki ^a   Horiuchi, Yoshinobu ^a   Komiya, Takako ^a   Fukuda, Tadashi ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^a   Takahashi, Motohide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigen; Antitoxin; Diphtheria; Quality control; Tetanus; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; TETANUS TOXOID;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; DRUG DETERMINATION; FLOCCULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; FLOCCULATION TESTS; LASERS; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TETANUS ANTITOXIN; TETANUS TOXOID; TOXOIDS;

CITRUS AURANTIIFOLIA;

EID: 33845882993     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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