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• a  containing only one kind of antibody
• a  having a valence of 1

• The federal program is providing two types of vaccine: monovalent, which offers protection only against swine flu, and bivalent, which also contains vaccine against last year's .
• In other countries, such as Yemen, Egypt and India, the immunization program is getting a boost from a so-called monovalent vaccine, which more effectively knocks out the Type 1 .
• Because today many people are discovering "that a single story, a monovalent logic, a rigid theology are not adequate.

• univalent

• polyvalent

News & Articles

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• Novavax Initiates First Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Its A(H7N9) Influenza Vaccine Candidate
  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Novavax, Inc. today announced that enrollment has begun in a Phase 1 clinical trial of its monovalent virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine candidate for the prevention of disease due to ...
  July 8, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Margaret Chan in US Department of State (press release)
  For a trivalent pandemic vaccine [containing three different strains of vaccine], annual manufacturing capacity is about 500 million doses,Chan said. "For a monovalent vaccine [containing one strain], this figure increases to 1.5 billion...