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Immunization
Data from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Division of Virology provide new insights into immunization
June 24th, 2009
New research, 'Field assessment of an H5N1 inactivated vaccine in chickens and ducks in Lao PDR,' is the subject of a report. "Despite the extensive use of poultry vaccines to control the spread of H5N1 influenza in poultry, H5N1 outbreaks continue to occur in domestic birds. Our objective was to determine the duration of the neutralizing antibody response under field conditions after vaccination with a laboratory-tested inactivated reverse genetics-derived H5N3 vaccine," investigators in the United States report. "H5N3 hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and virus neutralization (VN) antibodies were observed 40 weeks after vaccination of chickens with two doses and...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-06-24)
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