What is the DTP vaccine? Vaccines: Vaccines are often used to prevent both viral and bacterial infections. However, the two different types of vaccines are often made differently. Viral vaccines can use dead viral material, components of a virus's structure, or a weakened live virus. Bacterial...
The DTP vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). It is normally given in multiple doses in early childhood. The vaccine contains diphtheria and tetanus toxins that have been inactivated with formalin. The pertussis part of the vacci...
So the best way to prevent the disease is to be vaccinated against it. Diphtheria vaccine is usually given together with vaccines that protect against two other diseases: tetanus (also called lockjaw) and pertussis (also known as whooping cough). This DTP vaccine is given at 2, 4, and 6 ...
I also started reading about adverse vaccine reactions, and as I grew Oscar inside my very own body I struggled with what seemed like an unacceptable trade off to protect public health – other people, that is – by knowingly injecting something into my healthy baby that carries a small but...
To the Editor.— I read with interest the article by Hoffman et al.1 The authors conclude from this study that DTP immunization is not a significant factor in the occurrence of SIDS because only five (1.8%) of the case infants died within 24 hours of receiving the DTP vaccine. Their da...
But the lockdown is over, and a vaccine is just around the corner. So the upward trend in the use of remand is expected to continue. This is also the view of the Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, who has just released his annual report expressing his concern “over the growth of people ...
Country, referenceData collection periodData sourceRepresentativenessSubgroupAge group (years)Case frequencyCase fatality rateVaccine detailsVaccination coverage/rate Indonesia (Husada et al., 2020) January 2016 to June 2019 Surveillance data East Java 2018 7-<8 21 NR DTP Not stratified by age.“Most...
Failure of vitamin A supplementation in reducing inequality for neonates may be because of initial differences in vitamin A status (boys have lower retinol levels in their cord blood than do girls) or a negative interaction between immunomodulating micronutrients and the DTP vaccine [6]. Though the...
2. BCG-induced protective immunity can be long-lived – but this may depend on the type of immunity being measured Another comment often made about the BCG vaccine is that it fails to induce long-lasting immunity, generally assumed to be mediated by classical T-cell memory. Again, this is...
Polio is an infectious disease that primarily attacks the muscular system. Over time, it can totally eliminate a muscle group's ability to move and do work, potentially leaving a person totally disabled.Answer and Explanation: The polio vaccine is a small quantity of inert polio virus injected ...