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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 8, Pages 3687-3689Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.8.3687-3689.2003
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The potency of smallpox vaccines produced in the 1970s was tested by titration onto. chorioallantoic membranes of fertilized hen eggs (CAM assay). The potency specification commonly approved for these vaccines was a titer above 10(8) pock-forming units per milliliter. We developed and validated a cell culture titration assay to have a more reliable potency test. The cell titration assay and the CAM assay were tested in parallel on 34 first-generation smallpox vaccine lots. These allowed us to demonstrate that a correlation does exist between the two titration techniques and to determine a new in-house specification for the cell titration method. This in vitro potency assay will allow us to test first-generation smallpox vaccines produced on the skin of living animals but will also give a hint of the potency specification that should be assigned for new generations of cell-derived smallpox vaccines.
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