Abstract
Vaccine production processes result from the interaction between humans with a particular cell and virus system. The factors that control progress lie not only in the nature of the virus and animal cell but also in the history of the environment in which the process is to be developed. This latter constraint strongly influences the nature of the technical process that is chosen for the production of the vaccine rather than the achievement of efficiency based on one or other of the many possible engineering parameters of the virus production process. In addition to this it is also clear that we have much to learn about the production of viruses from animal cells in culture and that we may be aided by changing our present paradigm of the “virus as a cellular enemy’ to that of the “viruses are the cell's best friend”.
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Spier, R.E. Humans and viruses determine the nature of virus vaccine production processes. Cytotechnology 10, 1–7 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376094
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376094