In September 2008 the UK Department of Health initiated a human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme for girls aged 12-13 for prevention of cervical cancer, which is most often caused by two HPV types. An important question, yet to be addressed, is whether boys should also be vaccinated....

Present study focused on the production of safe and potent whole cell pertussis vaccine (WCP). Two days old culture of Bordetella Pertussis strain 10536 was revive in appropriate conditions and inoculated in Verwey medium to prepare seed culture. The seed culture was transferred to fermentor...