Influenza virus in the toilet
…certainly other microbes that should be removed from our toilets. Examination of the back of the bottle indicates that the product will inactivate rotavirus, a major cause of gastroenteritis. This…
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Offit on vaccines and autism
…a pediatrician who is also Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Vaccine Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is co-developer of the rotavirus vaccine and…
Vaccine Modalities – Part 1
…related to the smallpox-causing virus (variola virus), but is much less harmful. Other attenuated vaccines include the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, yellow fever vaccine, varicella (chickenpox) vaccine, rotavirus…
Is circovirus DNA infectious?
The US Food and Drug Administration does not want Rotarix, the rotavirus vaccine, to be used because it contains porcine circovirus 1 DNA. If complete copies of the circovirus genome…
TWiV 86: Dark matter with Dr. Eric Delwart
…type PMID # into PubMed CDC says don’t give rotavirus vaccines to infants with SCID The Brighton Collaboration Product sheet for RotaTeq (pdf – thanks, Sheldon!) Letters read on TWiV…
TWiV 846: Beta was stirring, and now in a mouse
TWiV explores the impact of the intestinal virome on seroconversion after rotavirus vaccination, and implications of the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 beta variant to infect wild-type laboratory mice. Click arrow…