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ACIP recommends updates to 2012 adult immunization schedule
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Major changes in the 2012 adult immunization schedule include the recommended use of the tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine in pregnant women after 20 weeks gestation and in adults aged 65 years and older who are in close contact of an infant aged younger than 1 year.
The recommendations were made today after Carolyn B. Bridges, MD, of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, presented data during the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Committee members decided in a 14-0 vote that the vaccine was safe enough to warrant routine usage in women after 20 weeks gestation — a departure from the currently recommended postpartum period; and in adults aged 65 and older who are in contact with an infant. For adults not in contact with an infant, the vaccine is an option, according to Bridges.
The ACIP also voted to include a table summarizing contraindications and precautions for the vaccines in the adult schedule. “This will provide easier access to this information,” Bridges said. “However, as with prior adult schedules, readers are referred to the full ACIP recommendations for more detailed information.”
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