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bivalent

[bī′vā·lənt]

(chemistry)

Possessing a valence of two.

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12] A 2-dose strategy was adopted, using the bivalent vaccine (Cervarix).

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of adolescents in the South African private health sector: lessons from the HPV demonstration project in Kwazulu-Natal

Reduction of low- and high-grade cervical abnormalities associated with high uptake of the HPV bivalent vaccine in Scotland.

Monitoring effect of human papillomavirus vaccines in US population, emerging infections program, 2008-2012

Miniantibody: Bivalent (or bispecific) (scFv)2, so-called miniantibody, is produced by association of two scFv molecules through two modified dimerization domains.

Creative Biolabs Designs Novel Techniques to Solve Problems Met in Dimerization of ScFv/Fab

These two developmentally crucial enzyme complexes function at the hub of mammalian development; by binding to the regulatory regions of bivalent genes, they regulate the intricate balance between self-renewal of stem and progenitor cells and the execution of cellular differentiation.

Prenatal alcohol exposure and cellular differentiation: a role for polycomb and trithorax group proteins in FAS phenotypes?

9) This form of logic boldly declines the simplification offered by two-valued, or bivalent, logic built on a foundation of true/false with an excluded middle.

Death of paradox: the killer logic beneath the standards of proof

2) DTIs are classified as either univalent or bivalent according to where they bind thrombin (see Figure 1).

Direct thrombin inhibitors: clinical uses, mechanism of action, and laboratory measurement

The main advantage of the bivalent is that it is so effective against type 1 and type 3 poliovirus at the same time," Sutter told the Reuters news agency.

'Potent new' polio vaccine found

This ambivalence is rooted in the bivalent quality of the emotional economy itself.

Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes

5 million doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine are being used in the campaign, led by the Ministry of Public Health and supported by UNICEF and WHO.

Anti-polio drive launched

Monovalent (against HPV 16), bivalent (against HPV 16, 18; Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium) and quadrivalent (against HPV 6, 11, 16, 18; Gardasil, Merck and Co.

Cevical cancer in South Africa: an overview of current status and prevention strategies: cervical cancer is distressingly common in developing countries

The bivalent vaccine will be used in the pulse polio vaccination in Bihar first and will then be introduced in Uttar Pradesh.

New polio vaccine to debut today

Safety and immunogenicity of a reformulated Vietnamese bivalent killed, whole-cell, oral cholera vaccine in adults.