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Rotavirus (Rotarix/RotaTeq)

Rotavirus Vaccine (Rotarix / RotaTeq)

Tier 1 · EPI/CoreVaccineCuration in progress

Platform: Oral live attenuated

Oral vaccine that protects against rotavirus, the leading cause of severe diarrheal disease in infants and young children.

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PubMed References

PMID 18267049Ward. Rotavirus vaccines how they work. Expert Rev Mol Med 2008.

Immunology Sections

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MechanismImmune ResponseMolecular & Immune SignaturesCorrelates of ProtectionOpen QuestionsImmunogenicitySafetyInfection Immunology

Verified References

PMID 18267049Ward. Rotavirus vaccines how they work. Expert Rev Mol Med 2008.

Wikipedia Overview

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A rotavirus vaccine is a vaccine used to protect against rotavirus infections, which are the leading cause of severe diarrhea among young children. These vaccines prevent 15–34% of severe diarrhea in the developing world and 37–96% of the risk of death among young children due to severe diarrhea. Immunizing babies decreases rates of rotavirus disease among older people and those who have not been immunized.

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Parenteral vaccination with an adjuvanted mRNA vaccine induces protective mucosal immunity against rotavirus in neonatal mice.

Jingjiao Li, Yu Liu, Xinghuan Ma et al. · 2026

1 citations

A lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platform that codelivers messenger RNA and the retinoic acid receptor agonist Am80 is introduced, enabling antigen-specific mucosal immune responses in the gut via parenteral intramuscular vaccination and suggesting that Am80-LNP may offer a versatile mRNA vaccine platform against gastrointestinal viruses.

Oral rotavirus vaccine shedding as a marker of mucosal immunity

Benjamin Lee, Md Abdul Kader, E. R. Colgate et al. · 2021

11 citations

Developing controlled human infection models for group A rotaviruses, especially in prospective studies with larger sample sizes, may be a promising tool to assess rotavirus vaccine efficacy and CoPs.

Inactivated rotavirus vaccine by parenteral administration induces mucosal immunity in mice

Theresa K. Resch, Yuhuan Wang, Sung-Sil Moon et al. · 2018

44 citations

This study is the first to show that parenterally administered IRV can induce mucosal immunity in the gut, in addition to strong serum antibody response, and is a promising candidate vaccine in achieving global immunization against rotavirus.

Rotavirus Reverse Genetics Systems and Oral Vaccine Delivery Vectors for Mucosal Vaccination

Jun Wang, Songkang Qin, Kuanhao Li et al. · 2025

6 citations

This review summarizes the RV colonization of the intestine and stimulation of intestinal immunity, as well as recent advancements in RV reverse genetics, and focuses on their application in the rational design of a multivalent mucosal vaccine vector targeting enteric pathogens considering the advantages and challenges of RV as a vector.

The synergy of recombinant NSP4 and VP4 from porcine rotavirus elicited a strong mucosal response.

Sufen Li, Xuechao Tang, Jinzhu Zhou et al. · 2024

5 citations

The NSP4* as a synergistical antigen exerted limited effects on the PoRV NAbs elevation, but conferred strong VP4*-specific mucosal and cellular efficacy, which lays the foundation for the development of a more effective porcine rotavirus subunit vaccine.