Vaccine against rotavirus diseases

US4704275A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services · US

Inventors

• Richard G. Wyatt · Potomac, US
• Albert Z. Kapikian · Rockville, US
• Robert M. Chanock · Bethesda, US
• Karen Midthun · Sharpsburg, US
• Jorge Flores · Bethesda, US
• Yasutaka Hoshino · Wheaton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 1985
• Grant date: Nov 3, 1987
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N2720/12334
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention discloses a vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus caused diseases in humans. The vaccine is prepared from attenuated, immunogenic rhesus rotavirus which has been characterized to be antigenically similar, if not identical, to human rotavirus serotype 3.