DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PROCESS FOR PURIFICATION OF CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE FROM Streptococcus pneumoniae SEROTYPE 14
Abstract The main virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae is the capsular polysaccharide (PS), which is the antigen of all current vaccines that are prepared with PS purified from serotypes prevalent in the population. In this work, three purification strategies were evaluated and a new process...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Society of Chemical Engineering
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-66322016000300435&lng=en&tlng=en |