Drugs / Rotarix
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Rotarix

Vaccine

Developed for
Rotavirus infection · diarrheal disease · gastroenteritis
Investigated by
GlaxoSmithKline · International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh · Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · PATH · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
+31 more · Imperial College London · Thrasher Research Fund · University of Vermont · Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biologicals, Vietnam · Charles H. Hood Foundation · Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Children's Hospital Number 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Christian Medical College, Vellore, India · European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, SE-171, Stockholm · French National Institute of Health and Medical Research · Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Hung Vuong Hospital · Medical Research Council · Menzies School of Health Research · Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC · Murdoch Childrens Research Institute · National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam · SK Bioscience Co., Ltd. · Seattle Children's Hospital · Stanford University · Telethon Kids Institute · The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, SE-171 82 SOLNA · University of Chile · University of Liverpool · University of Virginia · Washington University School of Medicine · Wellcome Sanger Institute

Regulatory milestones approvals, filings & regulatory actions · 1 recorded

MilestoneJurisdictionBrandIndicationDateSentence it was read from
Approved EU (EMA) Rotarix — 2006-02-21 europa.eu ↗

Trials 34

PhaseRegistry idDatesIndicationSponsorStatusOutcome
Phase 12 trials
Phase 1 NCT01086436 Mar → Apr 2010 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 1 NCT01162590 Mar 2010 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 27 trials · 1 met primary
Phase 2 NCT04658914 Apr 2021 → Aug 2022 Rotavirus infection, diarrheal disease Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT04344054 Feb 2021 → Sep 2022 Rotavirus infection PATH Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT01377571 Oct 2009 → Mar 2010 diarrheal disease National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Vietnam Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT00432380 Mar → Sep 2007 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT00263666 Mar 2005 → Feb 2008 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed Met primary
Phase 2 NCT00429481 Jan 2001 → Apr 2003 hepatitis B virus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT00425737 Aug 2000 → Jul 2001 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 314 trials · 2 met primary
Phase 3 NCT06025695 Sep 2023 → May 2024 gastroenteritis GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT04031846 Sep 2019 → Aug 2021 pneumococcal infection Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Completed Met primary
Phase 3 NCT03207750 Sep 2017 → Oct 2018 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT01375647 May 2011 → Oct 2014 Rotavirus infection, tropical sprue University of Vermont Completed Mixed
Phase 3 NCT01825109 Jul 2010 → Apr 2011 — International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT00533507 Sep 2007 → Jun 2008 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT00480324 Jun 2007 → Mar 2009 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT00420745 Jan 2007 → Mar 2008 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT00396630 Jan 2007 → Jan 2008 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 3 NCT00329745 Jan 2007 → Jul 2008 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 410 trials · 2 met primary · 1 missed
Phase 4 NCT03587389 Mar 2019 → Jun 2022 Rotavirus infection, diarrheal disease Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT02941107 Mar 2018 → Jul 2026 overdue Rotavirus infection Telethon Kids Institute Active not recruiting No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT02992197 Jun 2017 → Jun 2018 Rotavirus infection University of Vermont Completed Missed primary
Phase 4 NCT02907216 Sep 2016 → May 2017 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT01841671 Apr 2013 → May 2014 poliomyelitis University of Chile Unknown No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT01266850 Mar 2011 → Oct 2013 Rotavirus infection National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Completed Met primary
Phase 4 NCT01198769 Nov 2010 → Apr 2011 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT00995813 Dec 2009 → May 2012 Rotavirus infection, chronic intestinal failure Seattle Children's Hospital Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT00969228 Aug 2009 → Jul 2010 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 4 NCT00737503 Sep 2008 → Mar 2011 Rotavirus infection International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Completed Met primary
Phase not applicable1 trial
— NCT04123119 Jan → May 2019 diarrheal disease Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia Completed No outcome recorded
Comparator or background therapy28 trials
Phase 1 NCT03507738 Comparator Jul 2018 → Jun 2019 — Tanabe Pharma Corporation Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 1/2 NCT06647407 Background Nov 2024 → May 2027 expected meningococcal infection Sanofi Pasteur, a Sanofi Company Active not recruiting No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT01090453 Background May 2010 → Oct 2011 diphtheria, haemophilus infectious disease, hepatitis B virus infection, meningococcal infection +2 GlaxoSmithKline Completed No outcome recorded
Phase 2 NCT01110044 Background Apr 2010 → Aug 2012 Rotavirus infection GlaxoSmithKline Withdrawn No outcome recorded
Phase 2/3 NCT03602053 Comparator Jan → Oct 2019 Rotavirus infection, diarrheal disease Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia Completed No outcome recorded

News releases announcing trial results or a regulatory action · 10

DateIssuerRelease
2014-07-04 Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals, Vietnam Results Nghiên cứu của Mỹ thừa nhận các tác dụng phụ của vắc xin com.vn ↗
Các vắc xin rotavirus - RotaTeq và Rotarix - có liên quan với nguy cơ lồng ruột, là tình trạng một đoạn ruột này chui vào đoạn ruột khác.
2011-07-01 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory GlaxoSmithKline receives new approval for Rotarix and significant new indication for Lamictal® (lamotrigine) in Japan gsk.com ↗
2010-05-20 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory European Medicines Agency maintains position on the continued use of Rotarix™ (rotavirus vaccine) gsk.com ↗
The announcement today by the EMA is further confirmation that the benefit/risk profile of Rotarix remains positive and unchanged.
2010-05-13 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory FDA says Healthcare Providers can resume use of Rotarix (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral) gsk.com ↗
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that U.S. healthcare practitioners can resume the use of Rotarix® (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral), effective immediately.
2010-05-07 GlaxoSmithKline Results GSK Statement on FDA Advisory Committee meeting on Rotavirus vaccines gsk.com ↗
Testing of clinical samples conducted by GSK has not shown any indication of PCV-1 infection in infants who received Rotarix.
2010-03-25 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory Updated GlaxoSmithKline statement on European regulatory guidance relating to manufacture of Rotarix (rotavirus vaccine) gsk.com ↗
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today confirmed that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has maintained its position that it “sees no safety concerns with the Rotarix oral vaccine” and healthcare practitioners in the European Union should continue to use Rotarix™ as indicated.
2010-03-21 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory GlaxoSmithKline statement on new information relating to manufacture of Rotarix (rotavirus vaccine) gsk.com ↗
This notwithstanding, the FDA is recommending that US clinicians and public health professionals temporarily suspend the use of Rotarix as a precautionary measure.
2010-01-26 GlaxoSmithKline Results Rotarix™ significantly reduced severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in African babies during their first year of life gsk.com ↗
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) today published the first study demonstrating that Rotarix™, GlaxoSmithKline’s rotavirus vaccine, significantly prevented severe rotavirus gastroenteritis during the first year of life in African babies.
2009-11-29 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory Regulatory Update: GSK files Rotarix for prevention of rotavirus in Japan gsk.com ↗
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced today that it has filed its vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis (approved as Rotarix ® in a number of countries outside of Japan).
2009-06-04 GlaxoSmithKline Regulatory World Health Organization grants Global Prequalification to GSK’s Rotarix™ vaccine gsk.com ↗
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded global prequalification to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ vaccine against rotavirus, Rotarix™.

All press releases naming this drug 12 releases

DateIssuerRelease

Evidence & citations 9 cited values

Every value below carries the sentence it was read from. 68 sources stand behind the page.

FieldValueCited text
Known as ROTARIX “Immunogenicity, Reactogenicity and Safety of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals' Rotarix Porcine Circovirus (PCV)-Free Liquid Compared to Rotarix Liquid Given in 2-doses in...” NCT06025695 ↗
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“Participating infants were randomized at 6-8 weeks of age to receive either three doses of TV P2-VP8 intramuscularly (IM) plus oral placebo or two doses of ROTARIX® (oral) plus...” PMID 41319434 ↗ Nov 2025

“Healthy male and female infants, between and including 6-12 weeks of age, who received two oral doses of the liquid formulation of the Rotarix™ vaccine, according to a 0, 2...” NCT00363545 ↗

“three doses of BRV-PV or two doses of Rotarix® and one dose of placebo were given to healthy infants at 6, 10, and 14 weeks of age.” PMID 30104114 ↗ Aug 2018

“Administration of Rotarix at 6 and 10 weeks co-administered with oral polio virus vaccine” NCT01825109 ↗

“Rotarix™ 1.5 mL oral dose at 2 and 4 months of age (subset 1, Italy and Sweden)” NCT01480258 ↗

“Rotarix™ is in routine use in Zambia administered at 6 and 10 weeks infant age” NCT04123119 ↗

“RotaTeq® Rotarix®” NCT06647407 ↗

“ROTARIX™” NCT02941107 ↗

NCT01003431 ↗

NCT00533507 ↗

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Known as GSK444563 “Rotarix (GSK444563)” NCT02907216 ↗
Known as HRV “the human rotavirus vaccine (HRV; Rotarix) given early at 6 and 10 wk of age” PMID 28419095 ↗ Apr 2017
1

“Rotarix (HRV) was administered intramuscularly on Day 1 and Day 61.” NCT03621670 ↗

Known as RIX4414 “This Phase-IV study evaluated the human rotavirus (RV) vaccine Rotarix (RIX4414) to provide additional local clinical data to the Taiwan Food and Drug Association (NCT01198769).” PMID 24079716 ↗ Jan 2013
Known as Rotarix, GlaxoSmithKline UK “Rotarix®, GlaxoSmithKline UK” NCT02002156 ↗
Known as RotarixTM “a 2-dose (RotarixTM) oral rotavirus vaccine will be offered during the study” NCT01841671 ↗
Known as RV1 “ROTARIX™ (RV1) is a live-attenuated human monovalent oral vaccine containing attenuated G1P\[8\] human rotavirus strain sponsored and distributed in Australia by...” NCT02941107 ↗
4

“Both groups received concomitantly Prevnar 13 (PCV13) and Rotateq (RV5) or Rotarix (RV1) at 2, 4months of age and PCV13 at 11-12months.” PMID 27288217 ↗ Jun 2016

“the pentavalent RotaTeq (RV5) and monovalent Rotarix (RV1)” NCT02847026 ↗

“monovalent rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix®, RV1) alone” NCT02542462 ↗

“Rotarix™ (RV1)” PMID 38463163 ↗ Feb 2024

Modality Vaccine “GSK Biologicals' live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine” NCT00158756 ↗
Route Oral “2 oral doses of Rotarix™ vaccine at 3 and 4.5 months of age.” NCT00158756 ↗