Open AccessDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Production in the National Institute of Hygiene 1919-1951
Author(s) -
Marta Gromulska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
przegląd epidemiologiczny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2545-1898
pISSN - 0033-2100
DOI - 10.32394/pe.72.4.29
Subject(s) - cowpox , smallpox , medicine , hygiene , virology , vaccination , biology , vaccinia , pathology , biochemistry , gene , recombinant dna
The statute of the National Institute of Hygiene from 1923 apart from research and diagnosing of infectious diseases, their sources, ways of spreading and fighting defined: „production and research of sera, vaccines, cowpox and other bacterial products”. These targets were realized since 1919 along as the technology of production developed and the demand in prevention and fighting of infectious diseases increased. Sera and bacterial strains were investigated in Department of Bacteriology and Experimental Medicine in NIH and controlled Department of Sera and Vaccines. The technology of production was coordinated with foreign scientific centers and commissions of League of Nations. Since 1925 Department produced 10 species of medical sera and 32 species of various vaccines. Production was relocated to Warsaw Manufacture of Sera and Vaccines in the year 1951.