DPT vaccine - abbreviation for combination vaccine against diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus toxoids; usually given in a series of injections in early childhood vaccine, vaccinum - immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimu...
Pertussis FactNumber Four:Between 1986 and 1996, multiple clinical trials confirmed that the less reactive acellular DTaP vaccine demonstrated superior efficacy and effectiveness compared to the old and more reactive DPT vaccine.52535455Even so, whooping cough outbreaks continued in the 21stcentury...
DPRK- a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948 D.P.R.K.,Democratic People's Republic of Korea,North Korea Yalu River- a battle in the Korean War (November 1950); when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed ...
3. Molecular properties of vaccine antigens 4. Vaccine adjuvants 5. Vaccine formulation development 6. Vaccine analysis and stability profiles 7. Monitoring vaccine stability in the cold chain 8. Case studies: vaccine characterization, analysis of stability profiles, and examples of instability issues...
The Institute of Medicine reports on DPT and rubella vaccine safetyInpharma Weekly -doi:10.2165/00128413-199208220-00046NoneSpringer International PublishingInpharma Weekly
A child's chances of a serious adverse reaction to the DPT vaccine are one in 1750, while his chances of dying from pertussis are one in several million.Decades of studies published in the worlds leading medical journals have documented vaccine failure and serious adverse vaccine events, includin...
BCG vaccination is recommended by the WHO to be given shortly after birth, however, when vaccine coverage is usually assessed at 1 year of age, in some settings many infants have been vaccinated later than the WHO recommends [4], [5]. It is also clear that this wide vaccine coverage has...
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES SAFETY AND ANTIGENICITY OF PRP-D VACCINE ADMINISTERED 1 11 'SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH DPT BOOSTER TO 18 MONTH OLD IN- l 4FANTS. J. Owen Hendley, Jo G. Wenzel, Kathleen M. -Ashe, Joel T. Samuelson, Dept. of Peds, Univ. of VA School of Med, CONGENITAL HERPES SIMPLEX ...
Pentavalent vaccine = Diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, whole cell pertussis combination vaccine (DPT) combined with hepatitis B vaccine and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine; PCV = Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine IPV = inactivated polio vaccine; OPV = oral poliovirus vaccine; Pentavalent =...