Steven B. Black, MD, professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, discusses study findings which found that rotavirus vaccination was associated with a moderate reduction in risk of seizure requiring hospitalization over the subsequent year vs. unvaccinated children.
To determine whether rotavirus vaccine confers any protective association for the risk of being hospitalized for seizures possibly stemming from rotavirus illness, study researchers retrospectively evaluated a cohort of children born after Feb. 28, 2006, who were enrolled in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), from 30 days to one-year after their last rotavirus vaccination. More than 99% of patients in the study received pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq, Merck).
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