Ejemplos de uso de vig
1. The hybrid antibodies also offer a potentially significant advantage over VIG as a treatment for smallpox vaccination complications not only because VIG is in limited supply but because VIG lots may have different potencies and carry the potential to transmit other infectious agents, he adds.
2. NIAID–funded researchers have been working to develop alternatives to VIG based on antibodies they created in the laboratory.
3. However, VIG is in short supply since the United States discontinued its public smallpox vaccination program in 1'72.
4. Moreover, the hybrid antibodies proved more effective than VIG when tested in mice infected with vaccinia virus, even when given two days after virus exposure.
5. All of the mice that were injected with 8AH8AL (even at the lowest dose) or with VIG were protected from death.