Author/Editor     Hoppenbrouwers, Karel
Title     Vaccinations in childhood
Translated title     Cepljenja v otroštvu
Type     članek
Source     Zdrav Vars
Vol. and No.     Letnik 40, št. Suppl
Publication year     2001
Volume     str. 77-80
Language     eng
Abstract     Combining multiple related or unrelated antigens into a single vaccine has long been a bedrock of the paediatric and adult immunisation programmes. The first diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) combiation vaccine was licensed in the late 1940's. Since that time tremendous progress has been made with the development of hexavalent paediatric vaccines as a temporary endpoint. Until recently other combinatiorr vaccines commonly used included diphtheria-tetanus (DT or Td), inactivated injectable (IPY) or life attenuated oral (OPV) trivalent polio vaccine and polyvalent measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). Also polyvalent non-conjugated pneumo-coccal and meningococcal vaccines have been extensively used for many years.
Summary     Kombiniranje več sorodnih ali nesorodnih antigenov v eno cepivo je že dolgo osnova programov cepljenja otrok in odraslih. Prvo kombinirano cepivo proti davici, tetanusu in oslovskemu kašlju (DTP) je bilo registrirano v poznih štiridesetih letih 20. stoletja. Odtlej je razvoj cepiv izredno napredoval; trenutno so najnovejši dosežek heksavalentna cepiva za otroke. Do zdaj najpogosteje uporabljana kombinirana cepiva so bila cepivo proti davici in tetanusu, inaktivirano cepivo proti poliu za vbrizgavanje, atenuirano trivalentno peroralno cepivo proti poliu ter polivalenfno cepivo proti ošpicam, mumpsu in rdečkam (OMR). V splošni uporabi so vrsto let tudi polivalentna nekonjugirana pnevmokokna in meningokokna cepiva.
Descriptors     HEPATITIS B VACCINES
VACCINATION
VACCINES, COMBINED
HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES
CHILD