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DTaP-IPV-HepB vaccine is a combination vaccine whose generic name is diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, hepatitis B (recombinant) and inactivated polio vaccine or DTaP-IPV-Hep B. [1] It protects against the infectious diseases diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, and hepatitis B. [2] [3] [4]
DTaP-IPV/Hib vaccine is a 5-in-1 combination vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type B. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its generic name is "diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, inactivated poliovirus and haemophilus B conjugate vaccine", and it is also known as DTaP ...
DTaP-Hib vaccine is a combination vaccine whose generic name is diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed with Haemophilus B conjugate vaccine, sometimes abbreviated to DTaP-Hib. [2] It protects against the infectious diseases diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and Haemophilus influenzae type B. [3] [4]
But vaccination rates among children have fallen; only about 92% of kindergartners had gotten their DTaP vaccine for the 2023-2024 school year, below the 95% federal target and leaving thousands ...
Fortunately, whooping cough is preventable by a series of vaccines that many people receive as an infant called DTaP - which stands for Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis.
A Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) is a document designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide information to a patient receiving a vaccine in the United States. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act requires that medical professionals provide a VIS to patients before receiving certain vaccinations.
DTaP (also DTP and TDaP) is a combination vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, in which the pertussis component is acellular. [25] This is in contrast to whole-cell, inactivated DTP (or DTwP). [9] The acellular vaccine uses selected antigens of the pertussis pathogen to induce immunity. [17]
A pentavalent vaccine combines five vaccines into one dose. Pentavalent vaccines include: DTwP-HepB-Hib vaccine, used by UNICEF in low/middle income countries; DTaP-IPV/Hib vaccine, used in the UK until 2017 (replaced by a hexavalent vaccine)