Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children Aged 0 through 18 years – India, 2013 and Updates on Immunization.
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2013-12
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Justification: There is a need to review/revise
recommendations about existing vaccines in light of recent
developments in the field of vaccinology where new
developments are taking place regularly at short intervals.
Process: Following an IAP ACVIP meeting on 3rd and 4th August,
2013, a draft of revised recommendations for the year 2013 and
updates on certain new vaccine formulations was prepared and
circulated among the meeting participants to arrive at a
consensus.
Objectives: To review and revise recommendations for 2013
Immunization timetable for pediatricians in office practice and
issue statements on new vaccine formulations.
Recommendations: The major change in the 2013
Immunization timetable was made in the recommendations
pertaining to pertussis immunization. Taking in to the
consideration of recent outbreaks of pertussis in many
industrialized countries using acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines
and subsequent finding of faster waning of the same in
comparison to whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccines and superior
priming with wP vaccines than aP vaccines, the committee has
now recommended wP vaccines for the primary series of infant
vaccination. Guidelines are now also issued on the preference/
selection of a particular aP vaccine in case it is not feasible to
use wP vaccine, and use of Tdap vaccine during pregnancy.
The administration schedule of monovalent human rotavirus
vaccine, RV1 has been revised to 10 and 14 weeks from
existing 6 and 10 weeks. Recommendation is made for the need
of booster dose of live attenuated SA-14-14-2 JE vaccine.
Updates and recommendations are issued on new typhoid
conjugate vaccine, inactivated vero-cell culture derived SA-14-
14-2 JE vaccine, inactivated vero-cell derived Kolar strain,
821564XY JE vaccine, and new meningococcal conjugate
vaccines. This year the recommended immunization schedule
with range for persons aged 0 through 18 years is being
published together instead of two separate schedules. A
subcategory of ‘general instruction’ is added in footnotes. The
comments and footnotes for several vaccines are revised and
separate instructions for ‘routine vaccination’ and ‘catch-up
vaccination’ are added in the footnotes section wherever
applicable.
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Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunization Practices, Recommendations, Immunization Timetable 2013
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Vashishtha Vipin M, Kalra Ajay, Bose Anuradha, Choudhury Panna, Yewale Vijay N, Bansal C P, Gupta Sailesh G. Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children Aged 0 through 18 years – India, 2013 and Updates on Immunization. Indian Pediatrics. 2013 December; 50(12): 1095-1108.