Biologicals

Poliomyelitis

Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV)

Recommendations for the production and control of poliomyelitis vaccine (oral) (Addendum 2000) Annex 1

WHO Technical Report Series, No. 910, 2002

Poliomyelitis vaccine, oral

Title: Recommendations for the production and control of Poliomyelitis Vaccine, Oral; Revised 1999 TRS 904, Annex 1

Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV)

Guidelines for the safe production and quality control of inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine manufactured from wild polioviruses (Addendum, 2003, to the Recommendations for the Production and Quality Control of Poliomyelitis Vaccine (Inactivated)

Technical Report Series, No. 926, 2004

Recommendations for the production and control of poliomyelitis vaccine (inactivated)

Fifty-first report, Geneva, World Health Organization 2002 (WHO Technical Report Series 910)

International reference standards

Anti-poliovirus serum (types 1,2,3)

WHO collaborative study to establish a replacement International Standard for anti-poliovirus sera, Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva, 22-29 October 1991

Poliovirus type 3 (Sabin) MAPREC analysis

Proposal to establish two new international reference reagents, Expert committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva 27-31 October 1997

Poliomyelitis vaccine (live attenuated)

Report of a collaborative study to assess the suitability of a replacement International Standard for Oral Polio Vaccine, Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva, 15-19 November 2004

Poliomyelitis vaccine (inactivated)

A WHO collaborative study on inactivated poliovirus vaccines, Phase 2, Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva 11-18 October 1994

Poliovirus type 3, MAPREC analysis

Proposal to establish an International Standard for MAPREC analysis of poliovirus type 3 (Sabin) Expert Committee on Biological Standardization, Geneva, 7-11 October 1996

Proposal to establish two new International reference reagents for the MAPREC assay of poliovirus type 3 (sabin)

NEW PUBLICATIONS

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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