vaccine, the antibodies prevent those organisms from making the person sick. Vaccines usually also stimulate the so-called cellular immune system as well. In other words, the person becomes immune to the disease the organisms normally cause. The process of building up immunity by taking a vaccine...
A new 13-valent conjugated polysaccharide vaccine (PCV13) against Streptococcus pneumoniae infections, which replaced the 7-valent vaccine (PCV7) in the regional immunization programmes for newborns and children who started but not completed the 3 doses schedule of PCV7, is available in Italy ...
less than 3 months) show that around 20.0% of children aged up to 15 years old were not up to date for tetanus, diphtheria, or polio (TD-IPV) vaccines, 24.1% were not up to date for pertussis vaccine, and 28.1% were not up to date for the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine. [...