Immunisation against rabies

Immunisation of Adult Sheep Against Brucella Infection

Immunisation against meningococcus B.

www.thelancet.com Vol 382 September 7, 2013 857 in 2000 under circumstances of uncertainty about efficacy and low (but in that case rising) disease incidence. A decision to introduce the Novartis vaccine, which is not really a meningococcus B but actually a broader, generic meningococcal vaccine, and to give it to adolescents and young adults who have the highest carriage rates could have been ...

Immunisation against Whooping Cough

lives and visits are often infrequent. To this extent, therefore, I see the community hospital in populations in excess of 40 000 being of primary significance to the community in respect of acute diagnostic and surgical services at an appropriate level, and the geriatric and long-stay element as a part of the overall picture rather than the predominant feature. In populations less than this fi...

Protection against pertussis by immunisation.

Review of all 126 children admitted to the communicable diseases unit with whooping cough during the epidemic in 1978 showed that two had received two doses of triple vaccine and only one had had full primary immunisation against the disease. None of these three children suffered complications of the disease. Of the 123 children who had not been immunised against pertussis, however, 66 had had ...

Intradermal pre-exposure rabies immunisation in New Zealand.

BACKGROUND Rabies is a fatal infection and immunisation is important to consider in those travellers going to rabies endemic areas. In those at high risk, a course of three immunisations may be given by the intramuscular (IM) or intradermal (ID) route, both of which are approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Little is known in the New Zealand ...