Biologicals

Poliomyelitis

WHO Working Group Meeting to discuss the Revision of the WHO Recommendations for OPV: TRS No. 904 and 910, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-22 July 2010

IABS Scientific Workshop on Neurovirulence Tests for Live Virus Vaccines

WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 31 January-1 February 2005

Polio vaccine containment meeting report

July 2003

Communication for polio eradication and routine immunization. Checklists and easy reference guides

Global Polio Eradication Initiative Progress 2003

Guidelines for implementing the pre-eradication phase of the global action lan for laboratory containment of wild pilioviruses

Surveying laboratories. Establishing inventories. April 2000

Global Polio Eradication Initiative Strategic Plan 2004-2008

Making use of vaccine vial monitors. Flexible vaccine management for polio supplementary immunization acitivities

New polio vaccines for the post-eradication era

Geneva, 19-20 January 2000

Fourth informal consultation on the polio laboratory network

Geneva, 1-2 October 1998

WHO global action plan for laboratory containment of wild polioviruses

Global eradication of polio: Report of the meeting on the scientific basis for stopping polio immunization

Geneva, 23-25 March 1998

Polio: the beginning of the end

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Recommendations/Guidelines adopted by the 63rd WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS), 15-19 October 2012.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

UPCOMING EVENTS

WHO Implementation Workshop: Characterization of cell banks for the production of biologicals, 27-29 May 2013 and WHO Informal Consultation on regulatory risk assessment in the case of adventitious agent finding in a marketed vaccine, 30-31 May 2013, Beijing, Republic of China

WHO Informal Consultation on the Scientific and Regulatory Considerations on the Stability Evaluation of Vaccines under a Controlled Temperature Chain, Langen, Germany, 4-6 June 2013

Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, 21-25 October 2013

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