Vol. 39 No. 5 (2022): OCTUBRE
Historic Note

Vaccine production at the ancient Bacteriological Institute of Chile

Walter Ledermann Dehnhardt
Centro de Estudios Humanistas Julio Prado

Published 2022-11-27

How to Cite

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Ledermann Dehnhardt W. Vaccine production at the ancient Bacteriological Institute of Chile. Rev. Chilena. Infectol. [Internet]. 2022 Nov. 27 [cited 2026 Jun. 2];39(5). Available from: https://revinf.cl/index.php/revinf/article/view/1706

Abstract

The birth, rise and decline, of vaccine production at the Bacteriological Institute of Chile is recounted by mouth of who was for seventeen years first in charge of manufacturing and then director of the institution. The vicissitudes of the BCG vaccine, the introduction of tetanus toxoid, the end of smallpox vaccine, and the triumph of the rabies vaccine are often related with comments from those who participated in the events.