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Influenza Vaccines
Study results from Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in the area of influenza vaccines published
January 28th, 2009
New research, 'Capture of cell culture-derived influenza virus by lectins: strain independent, but host cell dependent,' is the subject of a report. According to recent research published in the Journal of Virological Methods, "Strategies to control influenza outbreaks are focused mainly on prophylactic vaccination. Human influenza vaccines are trivalent blends of different virus subtypes." "Therefore and due to frequent antigenic drifts, strain independent manufacturing processes are required for vaccine production. This study verifies the strain independency of a capture method based on Euonymus europaeus lectin-affinity chromatography (EEL-AC) for downstream...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-28)
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