ECDC GUIDANCE Scientific panel on childhood immunisation schedule: Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination
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Using the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register to track the transition from whole-cell to acellular pertussis vaccines.
From 1997 to 1999, Australia changed from a whole-cell based pertussis vaccination program to an acellular one. This paper tracks the transition from whole-cell to acellular pertussis vaccines by calculating the number of whole cell (DTPw) and acellular (DTPa) pertussis vaccines recorded on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) each month from January 1996 to August 2000. The nu...
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Low levels of reporting indigenous status to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) in the past have resulted in reduced confidence in vaccination coverage data for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children. This study shows that the reporting of indigenous status has improved from 42% of the estimated national cohort of Indigenous children aged 12 to 14 months in 2002 to ...
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BACKGROUND Findings from animal and human studies confirm that diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis (DTP) and tetanus vaccinations induce allergic responses; associations between childhood vaccinations and subsequent allergies have been reported recently. OBJECTIVE The association of DTP or tetanus vaccination with allergies and allergy-related respiratory symptoms among children and ...
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