Friday, 6 November 2015

PHARMA BCQ-VACCINE


ANSWER: a) Rotarix

DESCRIPTION

Attenuated vaccines are the one which contains the live virus with less virulence activity, in which the activity of the pathogen is altered to less virulence or harmless when it is taken by the human as vaccine.

Rotarix is live attenuated rotavirus vaccine which is available in the form of powder for reconstitution for oral use. Rotavirus infects infants and young children, leading to fever, vomiting and diarrhea, sometimes, can be fatal due to severe dehydration. So vaccination is done during the early in the life time. If the virus is already present in the new born then difficult to manage and even it is not effective for fever, vomiting or diarrhea due to any other cause than rotavirus.

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