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)

UPCOMING EVENTS

WHO Collaborating Centers on Standardization on Regulatory Evaluation of Vaccines & Biotherapeutic Products: 1st meeting, Geneva, 24-26 April 2012

WHO Workshop on implementing WHO Guidelines on evaluating similar biotherapeutic products (SBPs), Xiamen, China, 28-30 May 2012

WHO Informal Consultation on the revision of the recommendations to assure the Quality, Safety and Efficacy of biological products prepared by recombinant DNA technology, Xiamen, China, 31 May-1 June 2012

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