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The initial wave of conception and production of animal and human vaccines supervised by Louis Pasteur (1822–95), although considered a great achievement in France, suffered from several theoretical, methodological and technical weaknesses that threatened the reproducibility of the results as well as part of the validity of Pasteur’s approach. While these problems were mostly pointed out by German scientists, there were also French critics of Pasteur’s work.
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Gachelin, G. (2010). The Construction of a Culture of Standardization at the Institut Pasteur (1885–1900). In: Gradmann, C., Simon, J. (eds) Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents, 1890–1950. Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230285590_5
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