"Six Diseases/One Vaccine - Is there a Limit?"

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, held May 19-21, 1999, in Crete, Greece, "The increasing number of new vaccines available as well as the growing number of recommended childhood vaccinations is driving the development of effective combined vaccines. However, combining pediatric vaccines is not a trivial task and multiple pharmaceutical and immunological limitations have to be faced. Pharmaceutical problems not only involve vaccine antigens, but also the stabilizers, antiseptics, adjuvants and other components used in vaccine production. Furthermore, simultaneous vaccine administration...

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