Sentences with phrase «microgram vaccine»
The researchers found that the 135 - microgram vaccine triggered antibodies and produced only mild side effects.
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Tests in macaque monkeys also showed that a single vaccine dose of only 50 micrograms provided strong protection against exposure to Zika virus five weeks later.
The method is much less cumbersome than dealing with chicken eggs, and because the vaccine is so easy to produce, the company intends to use 135 micrograms of hemagglutinin in each dose of vaccine — 3 times higher than current flu vaccines — in hopes of getting better protection.
Total vaccine supply will depend on several other unknowns, including whether 15 micrograms of antigen is enough — as is the case with seasonal vaccine — and whether one or two shots are needed.
Initially, all of the makers of inactivated vaccine had trouble with the «potency assay» used to ensure that 15 micrograms of influenza antigens are present in each dose.
The few remaining mercury - containing vaccines contain < 1 microgram.
Like the multidose influenza vaccines, some multidose meningococcal meningitis vaccines and tetanus toxoid (booster) vaccines (not recommended for children under six years of age) also contain thimerosal as a preservative, in amounts ranging from 12.5 to 25 micrograms per dose.27, 28 As of 2016, some other childhood vaccine preparations, such as the multidose DTaP and the DTaP / Hib combination vaccines, still utilize thimerosal in the manufacturing process.