| ACM |
Acambis
Plc |
| ADL |
Adams
Laboratories, Inc., 14801 Sovereign Road, Foth
Worth, TX 76155-2645 USA |
| ALI |
Abbott
Laboratories, Inc. |
| ALPV |
AlphaVax,
Inc. |
| ALT |
Alpha
Therapeutic Corporation |
| AML |
Amrad
Corporation |
| ANX |
Antex
Biologics, Inc. |
| APM |
Aventis
Pasteur MSD [joint venture of Aventis Pasteur and Merck; successor
entity for Pasteur-Mérieux MSD] |
| ARC |
American
Red Cross |
| ARM |
Armour Pharmaceuticals [abbreviation
and/or name superseded; see CEN and AVB] |
| AVAN |
Avant
Immunotherapeutics, Inc. |
| AVB |
Aventis
Behring L.L.C. [successor entity for Armour Pharmaceuticals (ARM)
and Centeon L.L.C. (CTN)] |
| AVIR |
Aviron
[purchased by Medimmune (MEDI)] |
| AVP |
Aventis
Pasteur [includes Aventis Pasteur, S.A. (France), Aventis
Pasteur, Inc. (Swiftwater, PA, USA), Aventis
Pasteur, Ltd. (Ontario, Canada)] [subsidiary of Aventis
S.A., successor entity for Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc, which absorbed
Connaught Laboratories, Inc. (CON), Institut Mérieux (MER),
Pasteur Vaccins (PV), Pasteur Mérieux Sérums et Vaccins
(PMSV), Pasteur Mérieux Connaught (PMC), Marion Merrell
Dow, National Drug Company, Merrell National Laboratories (MRN),
and Richardson Merrell]
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| AVXT |
AVAX
Technologies, Inc. |
| ALX |
AltaRex
Corp. |
| BAY |
Bayer
AG [successor entity for Miles Laboratories, Inc. (MIL)
and Cutter Laboratories (CUT)] |
| BAVA |
Bavarian
Nordic GmbH |
| BAX |
Baxter
BioScience, Vaccines divison, Baxter
International Inc. [formerly Hyland Immuno division; absorbed
Immuno AG and Immuno International AG (IAG), Immuno-U.S., Inc. (IUS),
and North American Vaccine, Inc. (NAV)] |
| BCH |
BioChem Pharma [absorbed by merger into Shire
Biologics, a subsidiary of Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, plc (SHP)] |
| BER |
Berna
Products Corporation [successor entity for Swiss Serum and Vaccine
Institute, Berne, Switzerland (SSV)] |
| BIB |
Bharat
Immunological and Biologicals Corp., Limited (India) |
| BIK |
BIKEN,
The Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka
University, 3-1 Yamada-oka Suita-shi, Osaka 565, Japan. [manufacturing
collaboration with Eisai
Co., Ltd (EISA)] |
| BIOF |
PT
Bio Farma (Indonesia) |
| BION |
Bionetics Research, Inc. [inactive] [abbreviation
and/or name superseded, see OTC] |
| BIOR |
BioReliance
Corporation |
| BMAN |
Bio-Manguinhos
- Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Av. Brasil 4365 Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro 21045-900 Brazil. |
| BMY |
Bristol-Myers
Squibb |
| BPT |
BioPort
Corporation, 3500 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Lansing, MI 48906,
USA. [successor entity for Health Laboratories, Michigan Biologic Products
Institute (MIP), New York Blood Center, Bayer, Centeon] |
| CANS |
Cancer
Association of South Africa (CANSA) |
| CANT |
Cantacuzino
Institute, Spaiul Independentei 103, PO Box 1-525, 70-100 Bucharest,
Romania |
| CDC |
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CELS |
CEL-SCI
Corporation |
| CHIR |
Chiron
Corporation [includes Chiron
Behring GmbH & Co. which absorbed Behringwerke AG vaccine business,
Chiron
S.p.A. which absorbed Sclavo Inc. (SCL) vaccine business, and
former Biocine joint venture of Chiron and Ciba Geigy] |
| CHJD |
CheilJedang
Corporation (South Korea) |
| CNL |
Connaught Laboratories, Ltd. (Ontario, Canada)
[abbreviation and/or name superseded; see AVP] |
| CNTB |
Cantab
Pharmaceuticals plc |
| CON |
Connaught Laboratories, Inc. (Swiftwater, PA,
USA) [abbreviation and/or name superseded; see AVP] |
| CSL |
CSL
Limited, 45 Poplar Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. [formerly
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Pty Ltd] |
| CTC |
Centocor
[wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson
& Johnson] |
| CTI |
Cancer
Therapeutics, Inc. |
| CTN |
Centeon
L.L.C., 1020 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406-1310 USA. [successor
entity for Armour Pharmaceutical Company (ARM); abbreviation and/or
name superseded, see AVB] |
| CUT |
Cutter Laboratories [inactive] [see BAY] |
| DOW |
Dow Chemical Company [inactive] |
| DVC |
DynPort
Vaccine Company LLC |
| EISA |
Eisai
Co., Ltd [manufacturing collaboration with Biken (BIK)] |
| ELN |
Elan
Pharmaceuticals |
| EVN |
Evans
Vaccines Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of PowderJect
Pharmaceuticals Plc) [formerly Evans Medical, Ltd., which acquired
vaccine business of Wellcome (WEL); Evans was acquired by and renamed
to Medeva (MDV); MDV vaccine business subsequently acquired
by PowderJect and Evans name restored] |
| FFF |
FFF
Enterprises, Inc., 27532 Commerce Center Drive, Temecula, CA 92590
USA |
| GPO |
Government
Pharmaceutical Organization (Thailand) |
| GSK |
GlaxoSmithKline
plc [merger of Glaxo Wellcome plc (GLX, which absorbed Wellcome
(WEL)) and SmithKline Beecham plc (SBB and SB), which earlier
absorbed Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques (RIT)]
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| GRE |
Greer
Laboratories |
| HUM |
HUMAN
Serum Production and Medicine Manufacturing Company Limited (Hungary) |
| IAG |
Immuno
AG, Immuno
International AG [abbreviation and/or name superseded, absorbed into
Baxter Healthcare Corporation (BAX)] |
| IDBE |
ID
Biomedical Corporation |
| IEX |
Inex
Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
| IIZ |
Institute of Immunology (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| IMER |
Institut Mérieux [inactive; formed
Pasteur Vaccins (PV) joint venture with Institut
Pasteur; later became Pasteur Mérieux Sérums et Vaccins
(PMSV), then Pasteur Mérieux Connaught (PMC) subsidiary
of Rhône-Poulenc, then Aventis Pasteur (AVP)] |
| IMNR |
Immune
Response Corporation |
| INTC |
Intercell
AG, CISTEM Biotechnologies GmbH |
| INTV |
InterVax
Biologicals Limited |
| IOM |
Iomai
Corporation |
| IPVE |
Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides,
Russian Academy of Medical Science, Moscow 142782 Russian Federation |
| ITLV |
Intellivax
International, Inc. [became wholly owned subsidiary of ID Biomedical
Corporation (IDBE)] |
| IUS |
Immuno-U.S., Inc. [abbreviation and/or name
superseded, see BAX] |
| KGCC |
Korea
Green Cross Corporation (South Korea) |
| LED |
Lederle Laboratories Division American Cyanamid
Company [absorbed into Wyeth (WYE)] |
| LET |
Laboratorios
Leti (Grupo Farmacéutico Leti), Parraco Triado 62-68, Barcelona
14, Spain |
| LG |
Lucky
Goldstar Chemical, Ltd. (Pharmaceutical
Division) (South Korea) |
| LIL |
Eli Lilly and Company [inactive] |
| MAB |
Massachusetts
Biologic Laboratories [formerly Massachusetts
Department of Public Health Biologic Laboratories], University of Massachusetts,
305 South Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 USA. |
| MDG |
MediGene
AG |
| MDV |
Medeva
plc and Celltech
Medeva Pharma [inactive] [successor entity for vaccine line of Evans
Medical, Ltd. (EVN); line subsequently sold; abbreviation and name
superseded, see EVN] |
| MEDI |
MedImmune,
Inc. [purchased Aviron (AVIR)] |
| MEJ |
Mead
Johnson [inactive] [subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY] |
| MICR |
Microscience
Ltd |
| MIL |
Miles Laboratories, Inc., Pharmaceutical Division,
Biological Products, 400 Morgan Lane, West Haven, CT 06516-4175 USA. [abbreviation
and/or name superseded; see BAY] |
| MIP |
Michigan Biologic Products Institute (formerly
Michigan Department of Public Health), Biologic Products Program, P.O.Box
30035, Lansing, MI 48909 USA. [abbreviation and/or name superseded; see
BP] |
| MRK |
Merck
and Co., Inc. [successor name for Merck, Sharpe, and Dohme, Inc.
(MSD)] |
| MRN |
Merrell National Laboratories, Division of
Richardson Merrell [inactive, see AVP] |
| MSD |
Merck, Sharpe, and Dohme, Inc. [abbreviation
and/or name superseded; see MRK] |
| NABI |
NABI
[successor entity for North American Biologicals, Inc.] |
| NAV |
North
American Vaccine, Inc. [absorbed into Baxter Healthcare Corporation
(BAX)] |
| NCI |
National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (USA) |
| NCIP |
National Center of Infectious and Parasitic
Diseases (Sofia, Bulgaria) |
| NOV |
Novartis
[formerly Sandoz (SAN) and Ciba-Geigy] |
| NWBT |
Northwest
Biotherapeutics, Inc. |
| NYB |
New
York Blood Center |
| ORA |
OraVax, Inc. [abbreviation and/or name
superseded: subsidiary of Peptide Therapeutics Group, plc; see PTE] |
| ORT |
Ortho-Clinical
Diagnostics [a Johnson & Johnson company; successor entity
for Ortho Diagnostic Systems, Inc.] |
| OTC |
Organon Teknika Corporation, Organon
Teknika, B.V. [successor entity for Bionetics Research, Inc.
(BIR)] |
| PD |
Parke
Davis [inactive, transferred influenza vaccine production to
Parkedale Pharmaceuticals (PDL)] |
| PDL |
Parkedale Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (subsidiary
of King Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.) [inactive; successor entity for Parke Davis influenza vaccine
production] |
| PFI |
Pfizer, Ltd. [inactive] |
| PHMX |
Pharmexa
A/S |
| PJP |
PowderJect
Pharmaceuticals plc [includes PowderJect Vaccines, Inc.; acquired
SBL Vaccin AB (SBL) and vaccine business of Medeva (MDV),
restoring the Evans name to the wholly-owned subsidiary, Evans Vaccines,
Ltd. (see EVN)] |
| PMC |
Pasteur Mérieux Connaught [abbreviation
and name superseded; see AVP] |
| PMSV |
Pasteur Mérieux Sérums et Vaccins
[formerly Pasteur Vaccines (PV) joint venture of Institut
Pasteur and Institut Mérieux (IMER); became Pasteur Mérieux
Connaught (PMC) subsidiary of Rhône-Poulenc, then Aventis
Pasteur (AVP)] |
| PRX |
Praxis Biologics [absorbed into Wyeth
(WYE)] |
| PTE |
Peptide
Therapeutics Group, plc |
| PV |
Pasteur Vaccins [inactive; joint venture
of Institut Pasteur
and Institut Mérieux (IMER); later became Pasteur Mérieux
Sérums et Vaccins (PMSV), then Pasteur Mérieux Connaught
(PMC) subsidiary of Rhône-Poulenc, then Aventis Pasteur (AVP)] |
| QUA |
Quad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [inactive]
[absorbed into Par Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., Pharmaceutical Resources, Inc.] |
| RIT |
Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques
[inactive; antecedent company of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)] |
| RIVM |
Rijksinstituut
voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu [National Institute of Public
Health and the Environment] |
| SAN |
Sandoz [inactive, see Novartis (NOV)] |
| SBB |
SmithKline Beecham Biologicals [component of
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (SB); merged into GlaxoSmithKline; see
GSK] |
| SBL |
SBL
Vaccin AB (Sweden) [absorbed into PowderJect Pharmaceuticals plc (PJP)] |
| SCHR |
Schering
AG (Germany) |
| SCL |
Sclavo, S.p.A [vaccine business absorbed
into former Biocine joint venture of Chiron and Ciba-Geigy, and later into
Chiron Corporation (CHIR)] |
| SGP |
Schering-Plough
Corporation (USA) |
| SHP |
Shire Biologics, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Shire Pharmaceuticals
Group plc [absorbed BioChem Pharma (BCH) through merger] |
| SII |
Serum
Institute of India (SII), Ltd. |
| SKB |
SmithKline Beecham [abbreviation and/orname
superseded; see SBB] |
| SOL |
Solvay
Pharmaceuticals [influenza
product] |
| SSB |
StressGen
Biotechnologies Corporation |
| SSI |
Statens
Serum Institut (Denmark) |
| SSV |
Swiss
Serum and Vaccine Institute, Rehhagstrasse 79, Berne CH-3001 Switzerland.
[abbreviation and/or name superseded; see BER] |
| TDH |
Texas Department of Health Resources
[inactive] |
| TOR |
Torlak
Immunology and Virology Institute, Vojvode Stepe 458, PO Box 1, Belgrade,
Serbia |
| TRGN |
Transgene
S.A. |
| TSI-GSD |
The Salk Institute - Government Services Division
[inactive; formerly a division of The
Salk Institute for Biological Studies; absorbed into Aventis Pasteur,
Inc. (AVP)] |
| UIL |
University of Illinois [inactive] |
| ULEI |
Universiteit
Leiden |
| UQU |
University
of Queensland |
| USA |
United
States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command |
| VHL |
Virax
Holdings Limited |
| VXGN |
VaxGen,
Inc. |
| WA |
Wyeth-Ayerst [abbreviation/name superseded;
see WYE] |
| WAL |
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories [abbreviation/name
superseded; see WYE] |
| WEL |
Wellcome; Burroughs Wellcome; Wellcome plc
[inactive] [merged into Glaxo Wellcome, but its vaccine business acquired
by Evans Medical, Ltd. (EVN)] |
| WIS |
The
Wistar Institute (University of Pennsylvania) |
| WLV |
Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines (and Pediatrics)
[abbreviation/name superseded; see WYE] |
| WYE |
Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals, division of Wyeth
[renamed from American Home Products, encompassing former Wyeth-Ayerst
Laboratories (WAL); Wyeth-Ayerst (WA), Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines
(and Pediatrics) (WLV), Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. (WYL), Lederle
Laboratories Division American Cyanamid Company (LED), and Praxis
Biologics (PRX)] |
| WYL |
Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. [abbreviation/name
superseded; see WYE] |