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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biologicals. 2018 Mar 14;53:30–38. doi: 10.1016/j.biologicals.2018.03.002

Table 1.

Preliminary experiments on the effect of freezing on IPOL D-antigen content.

Treatment Average D-antigen content Percentage of untreated (95% confidence interval)
IPV 1 IPV 2 IPV 3
Untreated (2–8 °C) 100% 100% 100%
1 freeze-thaw cycle (−20 °C) 86% (82–90%) 94% (90–98%) 97% (95–99%)
3 freeze-thaw cycles (−20 °C) 70% (56–84%) 89% (85–93%) 89% (81–97%)
5 freeze-thaw cycles (−20 °C) 72% (58–86%) 89% (85–93%) 93% (81–105%)
2 weeks storage (−20 °C) 71% (61–81%) 87% (73–101%) 91% (83–99%)