Thimerosal, or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, is a preservative used in low concentrations mainly in vaccines, cosmetics, ophthalmic and otolaryngolic medications, antitoxins, topical and ...

Many vaccines contain trace amounts of neomycin to prevent bacterial contamination during the manufacturing process. As a topical medicament, neomycin elicits a high sensitization rate.

global head of R&D at Sanofi's vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur. There are however still a lot of areas for improvement, he added, including thermostability – which has meant that first-generation ...

And it takes a long time," says Karlsson, who is the head of the Virology Unit at Institut Pasteur in Cambodia. "We're finding things maybe a week or two weeks or even a month later." ...