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WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization : thirty-seventh report, meeting held in Geneva from 1 to 8 December 1986

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Health Organization technical report series ; no. 760Publication details: Geneva : World Health Organization, 1987Description: 203 Pages; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9241207604
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100 SD;610.621 WHO.TR.760
Contents:
General -- Substances: Antibiotics -- Antibodies -- Blood products and related substances -- Endocrinological and related substances -- Miscellaneous -- requirements for biological substances -- Annaxes
Summary: Announces changes in the status or development of international standards for 35 biologicals, classified as antibiotics, antibodies, antigens, blood products and related substances, endocrinological and related substances, and a miscellaneous group of substances. The report also provides detailed information on requirements for the manufacturing, testing, and quality control of selected vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccines made by recombinant DNA techniques in yeast, live mumps vaccine, and inactivated rabies vaccine produced in continuous cell lines. Of particular practical interest is an extensive report on a WHO meeting concerned with the use of recombinant DNA techniques to produce hepatitis B vaccines. The report also includes amendments to previous requirements for oral poliomyelitis vaccine and for diphtheria toxoid, pertussis vaccine, tetanus toxoid, and combined vaccines.
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General -- Substances: Antibiotics -- Antibodies -- Blood products and related substances -- Endocrinological and related substances -- Miscellaneous -- requirements for biological substances -- Annaxes

Announces changes in the status or development of international standards for 35 biologicals, classified as antibiotics, antibodies, antigens, blood products and related substances, endocrinological and related substances, and a miscellaneous group of substances. The report also provides detailed information on requirements for the manufacturing, testing, and quality control of selected vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccines made by recombinant DNA techniques in yeast, live mumps vaccine, and inactivated rabies vaccine produced in continuous cell lines. Of particular practical interest is an extensive report on a WHO meeting concerned with the use of recombinant DNA techniques to produce hepatitis B vaccines. The report also includes amendments to previous requirements for oral poliomyelitis vaccine and for diphtheria toxoid, pertussis vaccine, tetanus toxoid, and combined vaccines.

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