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Article: Oral rotavirus vaccine yields better-than-expected results.(Infectious Diseases)
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- Family Practice News
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- December 1, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- Two years after approval of an oral rotavirus vaccine, pediatric rotavirus cases and hospitalizations in U.S. hospitals have decreased dramatically, according to two national studies as well as a number of local analyses.
That decline is present in nonvaccinated age groups, likely because of reduced overall circulation and transmission of the virus in children of all ages, say researchers.
At the joint annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, T. Christopher Mast, Ph.D., associate director of the department of epidemiology at Merck & Co. (maker ...