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Article: FPs lag pediatricians in use of rotavirus vaccine.(News)(family physicians)
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- Family Practice News
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- March 15, 2008
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ATLANTA -- Family physicians have not embraced the current rotavirus vaccine with the same gusto as pediatrians, Shannon Stokley said at the winter meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in February 2006, Merck & Co.'s live, oral pentavalent vaccine RotaTeq is currently the only rotavirus vaccine available on the U.S. market.
A previous vaccine, Wyeth Laboratories Inc.'s RotaShield, was withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1999 after post-marketing surveillance identified an association with intussusception. At a recent meeting of the FDA's ...