SERA AND VACCINES: IMPORTS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND EAST GERMAN PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008100050006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 3, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Gera and Vaccines: Imports f'rsm
Cseohosloyakia and last German
Production
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DATE DIM.
NO. OF PAS
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SOUME EVALUATION: ARE DMUNITM. AFMANAL OF
3 October 1955
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
1. Under the terms of a previous agrosmsat, 101 diagnostic preparations and
sera imported from Cseohoslovahia were tested letters Marsh and )W 1955
at the last German Central Baran lssesrsl Iisiituts, lrr1ta-most. The
tuts showed# 57 of the preparatioas were uwsablef 16 could be used only
oonditionall7f 28 were satisfactuy.
2. In his report announcing the results of the nests, Prefessor Dr. (mod.)
Friedrich Sartorius of the Central ie>Aa Isstit sts imf rmet the Miaiste'
of Health that thrre were few difflssltiss to ps t Nast Sesrq from
manufacturing the more important beets riolodis~i preparstiass and se's as
an alternative to importing them from CaMes1.,s cis,0 I. p ospesed that
for this purpose a special section of tilt 9 B ilp[stsff isrk le01ii 4Isisseasse
should be sit up under the control of the Osatrlhl serum lartitate.
3. There were a number of preparations, however, which could not practicably
be. manufactured in East Gsrma , These water
a. Goaooocevs antigen.
b. Tuberculosis antigen.
o. Abortus Bangi antigen("probabl7" not suitable for manufacture in last
Germaxw)
d. Meningococous mired sera.
e. Cholera serum.
f. Polyvalent brucellosis serum.
p. Pnsumococcus sera.
h. Tularaemia serum.
i. Precipitated anthrax serum.
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J. Precipitated sera for group differentiation of streptococci.
k. "Frei'achej antigen".
1. Abortus Bangi teat paste (wTostpaste").
m. Rh. sub groups sera DEC cc (sic).
4. Professor Dr. $artorius added that he had not taken into account the
production of veterinary bacteriological, preparations and sera, but considered
that the production of other blood group sera and extracts was quite sufficient
for current needs.
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