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Highly attenuated cytomegalovirus vaccine and production thereof

US3959466A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 15, 1974
Grant dateMay 25, 1976
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Expiry dateApr 15, 1994

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC12N2710/16134
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine, capable of inducing immunity in humans against cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID), without spread to contacts and with minimal excretion of the virus, is prepared by serially passaging virulent CMV in human diploid lung fibroblasts.

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