Looks at the major concerns surrounding the proposed change from current oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) for children in 1996. Discussion at the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Preferred schedules versus alternative schedules; Major concern in the ...
IPV offers complete individual protection and has been considered as an additional tool at present for those who can afford the vaccine, and since we are nearing the eradication of polio, it is time to shift from OPV to sequential OPV-IPV schedule in India. Such a strategy will avoid ...
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Since then, more childhood-focused vaccines have been added to the routine vaccination schedule and these are designed to prevent measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and pneumococcal pneumonia. Outside of the United states, most countries also administer the BCG vaccine in early childhood as a ...
Introduction of sequential inactivated Polio Vaccine-Oral polio vaccine schedule for routine infant immunization in Brazil's National Immunization Program. J Infect Dis 2014; 210(S1):S143-51; PMID:25316829; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jit588...
Persistence of oral polio vaccine virus after its removal from the immuni- sation schedule in New Zealand. Lancet. 2005;366(9483): 394-396.Huang Q, Greening G, Baker M, et al. Persistence of oral polio vaccine virus after its removal from the immunisation schedule in New Zealand. Lancet ...
An adolescent-adult formulation tetanus and diptheria toxoids adsorbed combined with acellular pertussis vaccine has comparable immunogenicity but less rea... In Canada, the fifth dose of the routine childhood immunization schedule against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio is given at 4–6 ...