By the pre-middle school visit, the child should have already received 3 or 4 doses of IPV (only 3 are required if the last dose was given after the age of 4 years); 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine; 2 doses of MMR vaccine; 2 doses of varicella vaccine; and 2 doses of hepatitis A vaccine.
By the pre-middle school visit, the child should have already received 3 or 4 doses of IPV (only 3 are required if the last dose was given after the age of 4 years); 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine; 2 doses of MMR vaccine; 2 doses of varicella vaccine; and 2 doses of hepatitis A vaccine.
If the child is fully vaccinated up to this point, the 3 vaccines to focus on are:
•Tdap
•HPV vaccine (Figure 5).
•MCV4 (Figure 6).
The 3 vaccines of particular interest at the pre-college visit also include Tdap, MCV4, and HPV. *
Figure 5 - Human papillomavirus types 6 and 11 have a predilection for external genitalia, where they cause condylomata acuminata.
(Courtesy of the CDC.)
Figure 6 - The photomicrograph above depicts Neisseria meningitidis group B bacteria using a Gram stain culture(magnification 31150) (A). The petechial papules on the hand of this child are a manifestation of invasive meningococcal infection (B).
(Photo A courtesy of the CDC; photo B courtesy of Sharon J. Markling, MD, Michael R. Warner, MD, and Charles Camisa, MD.)
Recent reports of measles in multiple states
January 25th 2024Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, tells Contemporary Pediatrics, “This is not new and demonstrates what is known, in that if vaccination rates do not stay at a level that is protective, outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases will occur.”