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- Title
Updates to the Canadian Immunization Guide: March 2014 to March 2015.
- Authors
Gemmill, I.; Quach, C.
- Abstract
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) develops recommendations for the use of vaccines for Canadians, which are summarized in the Canadian Immunization Guide (the Guide) and which is updated on a regular basis. Between March 2014 and February 2015 recommendations on five vaccines have been issued. Updates to the Guide include recommendations made for the alternative dosing administration of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in adolescents, timing of varicella zoster immune globulin (VarIg) following exposure to varicella, and the meningococcal and quadrivalent influenza vaccines, recently authorized for use in Canada. A change in recommendations for the use of pneumococcal vaccines in adults and individuals with asthma has also been made. The chapter on tick-borne encephalitis vaccine has now been removed from the Guide as this vaccine is no longer available in Canada.
- Subjects
CANADA; IMMUNIZATION; VACCINES; PUBLIC health; HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines; VARICELLA-zoster virus diseases; TICK-borne encephalitis; CANADA. Public Health Agency; VACCINATION; GOVERNMENT policy; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2015, Vol 41, Issue S-3, p19
- ISSN
1188-4169
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14745/ccdr.v41is3a06