Quantification of two variant strains contained in freeze-dried Japanese BCG vaccine preparation by real-time PCR

Biologicals

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-143

  Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Mochida, Keiko ^a   Yagi, Tetsuya ^a   Mori, Shigetaro ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^a   Yamamoto, Saburo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Guerin; Quantification; Real time PCR; Variant strain

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; BCG VACCINATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FREEZE DRYING; GENE SEQUENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BCG VACCINE; FREEZE DRYING; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG;

EID: 33947321151     PISSN: 10451056     EISSN: 10958320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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