COMBINATION VACCINES
These are vaccines which contain several antigens in a
single vaccine for protection against quite a few infectious diseases. Their
benefits include
- Reduction
in number of pricks
- Reduction
in number of visits to the health centre
- Reduction
in cost of administering and stocking vaccines
- Reduction
in pressure on cold chain
- Increase
in compliance
- Facilitation
in introduction of new vaccines in the immunization schedule
DTP and MMR are examples of combination vaccines. It is
around DTP that various antigens tetravalent and pentavalent vaccines are build
up.
- DTP –
IPV
- DTPa –
Hep B
- DTPa+HepB+Hib
- HepB-Hep
A
New combination
vaccines in pipeline include:
MMR- Varicella
DTPa.IPV-Hib-HepB
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