Safety Testing of Dengue-1 and Dengue-3 Seeds for Human Challenges, Unattenuated; Hepatitis A Virus, Strain HM-175

Abstract

Tests of seed and vaccine materials for safety in humans consisted fo inoculation in: 1) five different cell culture lines; 2) mice (adult and new- born sucklings), guinea pigs and rabbits; and 3) bacterial, fungal and mycoplasma culture media. The inocula for these tests included crude, unclarified harvests of both control and virus fluids (neutralized and/or un- neutralized). Tested were the following fluids: unattenuated dengue-1, dengue-3 and dengue-4 virus seed lots, a Japanese encephalitis (JE) production seed and vaccine, a hepatitis A vaccine. Tests of the Final Products included: 1) sterility; 2) inocuity in mice and guinea pigs; and 3) reverse transcriptase activity. Final Products of a JE and a hepatitis A vaccine were tested. In an effort to attenuate a dengue-1 vaccine lot, the virus was subjected to 10 serial passages in dog kidney cell cultures. (aw)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA209684

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  • Louis Potash

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cells
  • Contracts
  • Culture Techniques
  • Hepatitis
  • Immune Serums
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Lagomorphs
  • Production
  • Rodents
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Tissue Culture
  • Vaccines
  • Viruses

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  • Biology

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  • Immunology
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).

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  • Biotechnology