TY - BOOK AU - Ali Mohammed Ali Mohammed AU - Ali Mohamed Kholefy , AU - Hamdallah Hafez Zedan , TI - Evaluation of viability of BCG vaccine using a conventional viable count method and a tetrazolium salt rapid assay method / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ali Mohammed Ali Mohammed , KW - BCG vaccine KW - Tetrazolium salts KW - Viability N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Issued also as CD N2 - The potency of the live attenuated Mycobacterium bovis BCG vaccine is dependent on its content of viable cell. The viability of the organism is essential for the stimulayion of a protective immune response, hence monitoring of the viable count is an integral part of quality control o BCG vaccine. The method, which is recommended by the world health organization (WHO) and European Pharmacopoeia (EP) for control of potency of BCG vaccine, is the conventional viable count UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -