SETTING: Infants identified in maternity hospitals in Vilnius, Lithuania. OBJECTIVES: To test the capacity of the BCG vaccine, Danish strain 1331 (Danish vaccine), to induce tuberculin reactivity and ...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of three purified protein derivative (PPD) formulations: Tubersol (Connaught); RT23, Statens Serum Institut (SSI); and RT23, Mexico, tested in Mexican populations...
SETTING: Department of Pulmonary Medicine P, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. OBJECTIVE: To study the ability of two proteins secreted from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, MPT-64 and MPT-59 to in...
The gene encoding the immunogenic protein MPT64 found in culture filtrates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv was expressed in Escherichia coli K-12 and purified as a recombinant protein. The purifie...
An assay for quantifying viability in BCG vaccine by determining intracellular ATP content was developed and validated. ATP content was determined by measuring bioluminescence in the presence of lucif...
Safety and productivity of the initial flight test phase of a new vehicle have been enhanced by developing the ability to measure the stability margins of the combined control system and vehicle in fl...