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WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization : fifty-fourth report.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization. Meeting (54th : 2003 : Geneva, Switzerland)
- Conference Name:
- WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization. Meeting (54th : 2003 : Geneva, Switzerland)
- Series:
- Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 927.
- WHO technical report series, 0512-3054 ; 927
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological products--Standards--Congresses.
- Biological products.
- Drugs--Standards--Congresses.
- Drugs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report presents the recommendations of a WHO Expert Committee commissioned to coordinate activities leading to the adoption of international recommendations for the production and control of vaccines and other biologicals and the establishment of international biological reference materials. The report starts with a discussion of general issues brought to the attention of the Committee and provides information on the status and development of reference materials for various antibodies, antigens, blood products and related substances, cytokines, growth factors, and endocrinological substan
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; Antigens and related substances; Blood products and related substances; Cytokines, growth factors and endocrinological substances; Diagnostic reagents; Miscellaneous; WHO guidelines on nonclinical evaluation of vaccines; Recommendations for the production and control of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines; Recommendations for the production and control of influenza vaccines; Requirements for the use of animal cells as in vitro substrates for the production of biologicals (Addendum 2003)
- Recommendations for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and combined vaccines (Amendments 2003)Biological substances: international standards and reference reagents; Recommendations and guidelines for biological substances used in medicine and other documents;
- Notes:
- "The WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization met in Geneva from 17 to 21 November 2003"--Introd.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-43615-8
- 9786610436156
- 92-4-068151-5
- OCLC:
- 476035350
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