AS03 (for "Adjuvant System 03") is the trade name for a squalene-based immunologic adjuvant used in various vaccine products by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). It is used, for example, in GSK's A/H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine Pandemrix.

A dose of AS03 adjuvant contains^[1]

• 10.69 mg squalene
• 11.86 mg DL-α-tocopherol
• 4.86 mg polysorbate 80

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[edit] See also

• 2009 flu pandemic
• MF59 – another squalene-based adjuvant by Novartis
• AS04 – another adjuvant by GSK

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