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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews1996

Rotavirus vaccines: an overview.

K Midthun, A Z Kapikian

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mucosal and systemic neutralizing antibodies to norovirus induced in infant mice orally inoculated with recombinant rotaviruses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  8. Pathogen-induced secretory diarrhea and its prevention.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2016
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  9. Current status of rotavirus vaccines.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2015
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  10. Disease caused by rotavirus infection.The open virology journal · 2014
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  11. Rotavirus infection: a perspective on epidemiology, genomic diversity and vaccine strategies.Indian journal of virology : an official organ of Indian Virological Society · 2011
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  13. Rotavirus vaccines: an overview.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2008
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  14. Rotavirus vaccines.Indian journal of medical microbiology · 2006
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

K MidthunDivision of Vaccines and Related Products Application, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA.
A Z Kapikian

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rotavirus vaccine development has focused on the delivery of live attenuated rotavirus strains by the oral route. The initial "Jennerian" approach involving bovine (RIT4237, WC3) or rhesus (RRV) rotavirus vaccine candidates showed that these vaccines were safe, well tolerated, and immunogenic but induced highly variable rates of protection against rotavirus diarrhea. The goal of a rotavirus vaccine is to prevent severe illness that can lead to dehydration in infants and young children in both developed and developing countries. These studies led to the concept that a multivalent vaccine that represented each of the four epidemiologically important VP7 serotypes might be necessary to induce protection in young infants, the target population for vaccination. Human-animal rotavirus reassortants whose gene encoding VP7 was derived from their human rotavirus parent but whose remaining genes were derived from the animal rotavirus parent were developed as vaccine candidates. The greatest experience with a multivalent vaccine to date has been gained with the quadrivalent preparation containing RRV (VP7 serotype 3) and human-RRV reassortants of VP7 serotype 1, 2, and 4 specificity. Preliminary efficacy trial results in the United States have been promising, whereas a study in Peru has shown only limited protection. Human-bovine reassortant vaccines, including a candidate that contains the VP4 gene of a human rotavirus (VP4 serotype 1A), are also being studied.

Indexed as

AnimalsCattleChildChild, PreschoolHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMacaca mulattaRecombinant ProteinsRotavirusRotavirus InfectionsVaccinationVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticViral ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsVaccines, AttenuatedVaccines, SyntheticViral Proteins

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PMID8809469
PMCPMC172902

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