What is the rotavirus pentavalent vaccine?
What is the rotavirus pentavalent vaccine?
RotaTeq® (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent) is indicated for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children caused by Types G1, G2, G3, G4, and G9 when administered as a 3-dose series to infants between the ages of 6 to 32 weeks.
Is rotavirus Pentavalent a live vaccine?
Rotavirus immunization is back with a live, oral, pentavalent vaccine (RotaTeq) that targets the strains responsible for more than 90 percent of rotavirus gastroenteritis in the United States.
Does rotavirus vaccine contain eggs?
Is the rotavirus oral vaccine made in eggs? Does this affect children with allergies? This vaccine is not made in eggs and should be safe for babies with general allergies. However, any baby with a history of allergy to the vaccine, or to any of the substances that go into the vaccine, should not be vaccinated.
What ingredients are in RV vaccine?
5 live rotavirus strains (G1, G2, G3, G4, and P1). Sucrose, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate, sodium hydroxide, polysorbate 80 and also fetal bovine serum.
Does boostrix contain egg?
If you have an egg allergy, you should have no problem getting either form of the Boostrix vaccine. Boostrix isn’t produced using eggs and doesn’t contain any form of egg protein.
Which vaccines are cell based?
Cell culture technology has been used to produce other U.S.-licensed vaccines, including vaccines for rotavirus, polio, smallpox, hepatitis, rubella and chickenpox. Cell-based flu vaccines have been approved for use in many European countries.
Is rotavirus spread through saliva?
Rotavirus is highly contagious. It spreads through direct or indirect contact with an infected person’s feces (poop). It can happen if you touch a contaminated object, food, water, or the hands or mouth of an infected person. The virus enters your body when your unclean hand touches your nose or mouth.
