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Article: Prospects for Rotavirus Vaccine.(Clinical report)
- Article from:
- Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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Prospects for Rotavirus Vaccine
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY
Synopsis: Two recent studies of human-rhesus reassortant rotavirus vaccines have been found to be safe in children and efficacious in preventing severe rotavirus diarrheal illness and dehydration.
Sources: Santosham M, et al. Efficacy and safety of high-dose rhesus-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine in Native American populations. J Pediatr 1997;131:632-638; Perez-Schael I, et al. Efficacy of the rhesus rotavirus-based quadrivalent vaccine in infants and young children in Venezuela. N Engl J Med 1997;337:1181-1187.
A rhesus rotavirus tetravalent (serotypes g1-4) vaccine (RRV-TV), a ...