Rota virus

Active ingredient description

Rotavirus vaccine is indicated for the active immunisation of infants aged 6 to 24 weeks for prevention of gastroenteritis due to rotavirus infection. In clinical trials, efficacy was demonstrated against gastro-enteritis due to rotavirus of the most common genotypes G1P [8], G2P [4], G3P [8], G4P [8] and G9P [8].

Medicine classification

This medicinal substance has been classified in the anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification according to its main therapeutic use as follows:

ATC code Group title Classification
J07BH Rota virus diarrhea vaccines J Antiinfectives for systemic use → J07 Vaccines → J07B Viral vaccines
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Product monographs

Competent medicine agencies globally have authorized commercialization of this active ingredient according to these medication package inserts (MPIs):

Title Information Source Document Type  
ROTARIX Powder and solvent for oral suspension European Medicines Agency (EU) MPI, EU: SmPC

External identifiers

Medicines

Rota virus is an active ingredient of these brands:

Austria (AT)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Brazil (BR)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Croatia (HR)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Cyprus (CY)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Ecuador (EC)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Estonia (EE)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

France (FR)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Hong Kong (HK)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Ireland (IE)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Italy (IT)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Japan (JP)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Lithuania (LT)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Netherlands (NL)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

New Zealand (NZ)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Poland (PL)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Romania (RO)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Singapore (SG)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

South Africa (ZA)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Spain (ES)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Tunisia (TN)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Turkey (TR)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

United Kingdom (UK)

  • ROTARIX as Human rotavirus live attenuated

Note the following: The list of brand names is continuously updated, and thus does not include the total of products circulating worldwide.

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