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Quantitative Analysis of Vaccine Antigen Adsorption to Aluminum Adjuvant Using an Automated High-Throughput Method

Patrick L. Ahl, Sheng-Ching Wang, Ramesh Chintala, Christopher Mensch, William J. Smith, Marc Wenger and Jeffrey Blue
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology March 2018, 72 (2) 149-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2017.008250
Patrick L. Ahl
1Vaccine Drug Product Development, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., West Point, PA; and
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