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AAP issues 2011 immunization schedules
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The AAP has issued its recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedules for 2011.
In response to recent pertussis outbreaks in California and nationally, the AAP and the CDC urge all adolescents and adults to receive a one-time dose of the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine, and specifically advise that children who are 7 to 10 years of age receive a single dose if they are not adequately immunized against pertussis.
The schedules also contain recommendations on meningococcal vaccine, noting routine vaccination of adolescents aged 11 or 12 years, with a booster does at 16 years; and a two-dose primary series given 2 months apart for those aged 2 to 54 years with persistent complement component deficiency and functional or anatomic asplenia, and for adolescents with HIV.
Other additions to the schedules include instructions on dosing of influenza vaccine based on a child’s history of receiving monovalent 2009 H1N1 vaccine and guidance on administering human papillomavirus vaccines to males aged 9 to 18 years.
The updated schedules also include new information on the use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar 13, Wyeth), which recently replaced the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar, Wyeth), and include guidance on administering hepatitis B vaccine to children who do not receive the recommended birth dose.
For more information:
- AAP. Pediatrics. 2011; in press.