

@article {3748,
	title = {Rotavirus vaccines {WHO} position paper: {January} 2013 - {Recommendations}.},
	journal = {Vaccine},
	volume = {31},
	number = {52},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {6170{\textendash}6171},
	abstract = {This article presents the World Health Organizations \{\{\}(WHO)\{\}\} evidence and recommendations for the use of rotavirus vaccination from the \{\{\}WHO\{\}\} position paper on rotavirus vaccines - January 2013 recently published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record [1]. This position paper summarizes the \{\{\}WHO\{\}\} position on the inclusion of rotavirus vaccines in all national immunization programmes and recent developments in the field, in particular the potential of rotavirus vaccines to further reduce mortality by employing more flexible immunization schedules. The current document replaces the position paper on the use of rotavirus vaccines published in 2007 [2]. Footnotes to this paper provide a number of core references. In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, \{\{\}WHO\{\}\} issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes; they summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines, and conclude with \{\{\}WHO\{\{\}\${\textbackslash}backslash\$textquoteright\{\}\}s\{\}\} current position on the use of vaccines in the global context. This paper reflects the recommendations of \{\{\}WHO\{\{\}\${\textbackslash}backslash\$textquoteright\{\}\}s\{\}\} Strategic Advisory Group of Experts \{\{\}(SAGE)\{\}\} on immunization. These recommendations were discussed by \{\{\}SAGE\{\}\} at its April 2012 meeting. Evidence presented at the meeting can be accessed at http://www.who.int/immunization/sage/previous/en/index.html.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.05.037},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.05.037},
	author = {WHO}
}
