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Research Article

Robustness testing in pharmaceutical freeze-drying: Inter-relation of process conditions and product quality attributes studied for a vaccine formulation

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Pages 583-590 | Received 23 Sep 2010, Accepted 12 Apr 2011, Published online: 13 May 2011

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