Safety, Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity of Heat-stable Rotavirus Vaccine (HSRV) in Adults and Infants

It is a lyophilized live attenuated pentavalent (G1-G4 and P1\[8\]) heat-stable rotavirus vaccine (HSRV) comprising of all the five rotavirus strains as in licensed RotaTeq® vaccine for protection against rotavirus infection

It is a lyophilized formulation comprising of all the inactive ingredients as in heat stable rotavirus vaccine without any rotavirus

It is a pentavalent human-bovine (WC3) reassortant live-attenuated, oral vaccine developed by Merck Research Co., West Point, Pennsylvania, USA. This vaccine contains five live reassortant rotaviruses. Four reassortant rotaviruses express the VP7 protein (G1, G2, G3, or G4) from the human rotavirus parent strain and the attachment protein (P7\[5\]) from bovine rotavirus parent strain WC3. The fifth reassortant virus expresses the attachment protein (P1A\[8\]) from the human rotavirus parent strain and the outer capsid protein G6 from the bovine rotavirus parent strain.