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Article: More pediatricians than family physicians embrace RotaTeq.(Infectious Diseases)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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ATLANTA -- Pediatricians have embraced the current rotavirus vaccine to a much greater extent than have family physicians, Shannon Stokley said at the winter meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Merck & Co.'s live, oral pentavalent vaccine RotaTeq is currently the only rotavirus vaccine available on the U.S. market. (See related story above.)
To assess the rates of adoption and attitudes toward the Rotateq vaccine among physicians who treat children, in October 2007 the CDC sent surveys by mail and e-mail to a nationwide sample of 2,500 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics and 3,500 ...
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