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An Optimized Hemagglutination Inhibition (HI) Assay to Quantify Influenza-specific Antibody Titers
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[IgE-response after administration of pandemic vaccine strain A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)v]
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk
|December 18, 2012
Abstract:
Changes in total and allergy-specific IgE (IgE-antibodies) in 70 healthy volunteers vaccinated with influenza vaccine subunit strain A/California/7/2009/(H1N1)v. Safety of this vaccine was shown. Repeated second dose administration is not accompanied by increase in IgE-antibodies to egg components. Vaccine injection results in decrease of total IgE in patients with elevated IgE at baseline.
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