Adventitious agents in viral vaccines: Lessons learned from 4 case studies “The four cases are: a) SV40 in polio vaccines; b) bacteriophage in measles and polio vaccines; c) reverse transcriptase in measles and mumps vaccines; and d) porcine circovirus and porcine circovirus DNA sequences in rotavirus vaccines.” #Contamination #SV40 #Polio #Vaccine #Rotavirus #Measles #MMR #MedScienceResearch […]
Accidental Administration of an Ergot Alkaloid to a Neonate “We describe a neonate with altered splanchnic arterial blood flow after accidental substitution of an ergot alkaloid, methylergonovine maleate (MEM), for vitamin K1.” #Vitamin #K #Error #MedScienceResearch http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/98/3/457.long — Accidental Poisoning of Newborn Infants with Ergonovine Maleate #Vitamin #K #Error #MedScienceResearch http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000992287101000505 — Anaphylactic shock due […]
Activation of metastatic potential in African green monkey kidney cell lines by prolonged in vitro culture. “Their malignant tumor growth was further demonstrated around the 500 passage level when tumor metastases were detected in the lungs of four of the 14 inoculated rats. Vero cells induced such lung metastases in rats already at passage 227.” […]
