The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE1240
July 31, 2006
RotaTeq: A New Oral Rotavirus Vaccine
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RotaTeq: A New Oral Rotavirus Vaccine
July 31, 2006 (Issue: 1240)
The FDA has recently approved RotaTeq (Merck), an oral live, human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine, for use in infants to prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis, a frequent cause of severe diarrhea in infancy.
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