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Case Study: New rotavirus vaccine enters manufacturing
14 December, 201814 December, 2018

Bio Farma, Indonesia’s national vaccine company, is completing a phase 1 trial of a new rotavirus vaccine invented in Melbourne and has started pilot manufacture of the vaccine. Licencing trials are next, followed hopefully by release of the new vaccine in 2021. The project is the culmination of a 42-year partnership between Melbourne and Gadjah…

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New rotavirus vaccine could benefit millions of children
22 February, 201817 October, 2019

A rotavirus vaccine that can be given days after birth has been developed by Australian and Indonesian researchers. Rotavirus is the common cause of severe diarrhoea and a killer of approximately 215,000 children under five globally each year. The oral vaccine, called RV3-BB, was given in three single doses, the first within five days of birth….

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