In Russia began to develop a vaccine against rotavirus in children

Russian scientists have begun developing a vaccine to prevent rotavirus infection in children, the press service of Rospotrebnadzor reports.

“The development and production of a domestic inactivated rotavirus vaccine will be of great importance for import substitution, as well as for export to foreign friendly countries,” the report says.

According to the press service of the department, employees of the Rostov Research Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology are developing the drug.

In the near future, they will conduct preclinical studies of the vaccine, the Rospotrebnadzor added.

Currently, such foreign rotavirus vaccines as RotaTeq ( USA ) and Rotarix (Belgium) are used in practice.

In Russia, vaccinations against rotavirus and chickenpox will begin by 2021 Society

The plans to develop domestic vaccinations against rotavirus were discussed back in 2019 by the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) Veronika Skvortsova, who at that time was the Minister of Health.

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“As far as I understand, we will only talk about partial localization of production in Russia, it is hardly possible to organize full-cycle production in 1.5 years. As far as I know, our own developments on chicken pox and rotavirus infection were also carried out, but it is still a long time before the drugs are brought to the market, ”Nikolai Bespalov, development director of the analytical company RNC Pharma, said in a conversation with RBC.

In 2022, the government should include vaccination against rotavirus infection in the National Immunization Schedule.