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Hepatitis A Virus
Researchers from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publish findings in hepatitis A virus
July 13th, 2009
"Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a wide spread pathogenic agent and is the common cause of acute Hepatitis A worldwide. Passive immunization of HAV plays an extremely important role in post-exposure prophylaxis with clinical applications often requiring large amounts of antibody," researchers in Beijing, People's Republic of China report. "As an alternative to the in vitro production of recombinant proteins, expression of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the milk of transgenic animals is currently used being associated with low production costs and high activity. In this paper, eight founder lines of transgenic mice were generated by co-microinjection of the two cassettes...
Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2009-07-13)
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