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CDC, AAP approve recommended pediatric immunization schedules for 2015
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Based on the October 2014 meeting among the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, recommended immunization schedules for children have been published in MMWR.
“Each year, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews the recommended immunization schedules for persons aged 0 through 18 years to ensure that the schedules reflect current recommendations for Food and Drug Administration-licensed vaccines,” Raymond A. Strikas, MD, of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and colleagues wrote.
The updated recommendations have several changes to the 2014 immunization schedule, including:
- a modification to highlight recommendations for live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) and children aged 6 months through 8 years, who require two doses of influenza vaccine in the first year vaccinated and one dose subsequent years thereafter;
- a purple bar was added for M-M-R II (measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, Merck) for children aged 6 to 11 months, indicating the recommendation to vaccinate these children if they plan to travel or live abroad;
- the footnote for meningococcal conjugate vaccine was clarified to present recommendations for children aged 2 months and older with anatomic or functional asplenia;
- the footnote for influenza vaccine was updated to indicate revised contraindications for LAIV;
- the pneumococcal vaccine footnote provides clearer guidance for vaccination of children with high-risk conditions; and
- the catch-up immunization schedules for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Tdap and varicella vaccines were clarified.
Further, the CDC has developed “job-aids” that describe detailed scenarios by age group and previous doses of vaccine received for DTaP, Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.
Carrie Byington
“The 2015 recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule has been approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,” Carrie L. Byington, MD, of the AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, and colleagues wrote.
For more information:
For the most current immunization schedules, visit http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules.
Disclosure: The researchers report no relevant financial disclosures.
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