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Rotavirus vaccines [Rotavirus aşilari]

open access: yes, 2007
Rotavirus is a major cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide and infects almost all children in the first 5 years of life, with severe, dehydrating gastroenteritis occurring primarily among children 4 to 36 months of age. Rotavirus causes an estimated 600.000 deaths and more than 2 million hospitalizations each year.
Kurugöl Z.
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Rotavirus and Rotavirus Vaccines

2006
Two new rotavirus vaccines have recently been licensed that will provide the intervention needed to diminish the huge burden of rotavirus disease among all children. In many upper and middle income countries, these vaccines will soon be available for the routine immunization of children.
Roger I, Glass   +5 more
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Rotavirus vaccines – an update

Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 2003
Rotavirus vaccines offer the best hope to reduce the toll of acute rotaviral gastroenteritis in both developed and developing countries. An association with intussusception (IS) led to the withdrawal of the first licensed rotavirus vaccine in the USA in 1999, forcing a re-evaluation of the safety profile of potentially lifesaving vaccines.
Carl D, Kirkwood, Jim, Buttery
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Rotavirus vaccines

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008
Two live attenuated oral rotavirus vaccines were licensed in 2006 for prevention of severe acute gastroenteritis in children: Rotarix (GSK), a human rotavirus vaccine with G1P[8] serotype characteristics and RotaTeq (Merck), a bovine-human reassortant vaccine expressing human G1-4 and P[8] antigens.
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The rotavirus vaccine

Journal of Clinical Virology, 1998
Rotavirus gastroenteritis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.To review the biology, immunology, and virology of rotavirus infections and describe the efforts towards the construction of vaccines using human and animal rotaviruses.A review of the literature and provision of the author's understanding and speculation of ...
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Rotavirus Vaccines and Vaccination Potential

1994
The development of a successful rotavirus vaccine is a complex problem. Our review of rotavirus vaccine development shows that many challenges remain, and priorities for future studies need to be established. For example, the evaluation of administration of a vaccine with OPV or breast milk might receive less emphasis until a vaccine is made that shows
M E, Conner, D O, Matson, M K, Estes
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Update on Rotavirus Vaccines

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2005
Rotavirus was discovered in 1973, and 10 years later the first report of a rotavirus vaccine clinical trial appeared. This update reviews the epidemiology of rotavirus infections, assesses past and current vaccines and presents ideas for implementation of vaccination programs in developed and developing countries.
Joseph S, Bresee   +5 more
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Rotavirus vaccines—An update

Vaccine, 2005
Rotavirus infection is the most common cause of severe diarrhea disease in infants and young children worldwide and has a major global impact on childhood morbidity and mortality. Vaccination is the only control measure likely to have a significant impact on the incidence of severe dehydrating rotavirus disease.Rotavirus disease prevention efforts ...
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Rotavirus Vaccine (RotaTeq??)

Pediatric Drugs, 2006
RotaTeq is a live, oral, pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine approved for use in the prevention of G1-G4 rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children. Rotavirus vaccine demonstrated good immunogenicity in healthy infants. Three oral doses of rotavirus vaccine had a protective efficacy against G1-G4 rotavirus gastroenteritis of ...
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Tetravalent Rotavirus Vaccine

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 1999
OBJECTIVE: To review the clinical efficacy, safety, and pharmacoeconomic data about the use of rhesus–human reassortant rotavirus tetravalent vaccine (RRV-TV) in infants and children. DATA SOURCES: A MEDLINE search (January 1990 ...
T L, Wandstrat   +3 more
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