Friday, May 09, 2008

General Recommendations 

CDC's General Recommendations on Immunization:
ACIP-General Recommendations on Immunization

CDC's Current Routine Pediatric Immunization Schedule:
CDC-Ped Schedule

CDC's Recommendations for Immunization of Adolescents:
ACIP-Adolescents • Public-Adolescents

CDC's Recommendations for Adult Immunization:
ACIP-Adult• Adult Schedule

For Information About Adult Immunization Awareness Week:
CDC-Adult Immunization Week  • NCAI-Campaign Kit

For Information on Assessing Adult Immunization Needs Beginning at 50 Years of Age:
CDC-Age 50  • NCAI-Adult Schedule • CDC-Adult Schedule  • IAC-Adult Schedule • Public-Adult • 
Public-Adult Q&A

CDC's Statement on Use of Vaccines and Immune Globulins in Persons With Altered Immunocompetence:
ACIP-Immunodeficiency

CDC's Recommendations on Immunization of Health-Care Workers:
ACIP-Health-Care Workers  • Guideline for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998

VACCINE SAFETY: CDC's Update on Vaccine Side Effects, Adverse Reactions, Contraindications, and Precautions:
ACIP-Side Effects  • CDC's Six Common Misconceptions About Vaccination & How To Respond To Them • 
Vaccine Safety: What You Need to Know • CDC-Thimerosal • AAP-Thimerosal • IOM-Thimerosal

Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis):
DoD policy •  CDC-Anthrax  •  JAMA-Anthrax  •
NEJM-Anthrax • WHO-Anthrax •  ACIP-Anthrax   • 
IOM-Anthrax • FDA-Anthrax • Occupational-Anthrax •  Terrorism

Cholera (Vibrio cholerae):
ACIP-Cholera • Public-Cholera • Canada-Cholera • 
WHO-Cholera

Diphtheria & Tetanus (Corynebacterium diphtheriae & Clostridium tetani):
ACIP-Diphth-Tet • Public-Diphtheria • Public-Tetanus •
Canada-Diphtheria • CDC-Diphtheria Antitoxin

DTaP - Resume-DTaP
See Pertussis

Haemophilus influenzae type b:
ACIP-Hib • CDC-DTaP-Hib (TriHIBiT)  •
CDC-Hib-HepB (Comvax)  • WHO-Hib 

Hepatitis A:
ACIP-Hep A  • Public-Hep A • Canada-Hepatitis A •  
WHO-Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B:
2 doses for adolescents  • ACIP-Hep B (update)  • 
CDC-Hib-HepB (Comvax)  • Public-Hep B • 
CDC-Hep B-1999 • Achievement-Hep B • IOM-Hep B-Demyelination • WHO-Hep B

Influenza: Includes information about the most recent influenza vaccine formula:
Influenza 2005-06  • Public-Influenza •
Canada-Influenza-05 • CMS's Influenza Homepage: Medicare pays for flu shots. •   WHO-Influenza •  Pandemic Influenza Plan

Japanese Encephalitis:
ACIP-JE  • Canada-JE

Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi):
ACIP-Lyme •  American Lyme Disease Foundation • Lyme Disease Foundation Inc •
CDC-Lyme-Stats

Measles:
ACIP-Measles •  
Public-Measles-Adult •  Canada-Measles •  IOM-Autism •  WHO-Measles

Meningococcal Disease (Neisseria meningitidis):
ACIP-Meningococcal  •  Canada-Meningococcal   •  WHO-Meningococcal

Mumps:
ACIP-Mumps • Public-Mumps • WHO-Mumps

Pertussis (Bordetella pertussis): Includes Recommendations About Acellular Pertussis Vaccines:
ACIP-DTaP • CDC-DTaP-Hib (TriHIBiT)  • 
Canada-Pertussis • Canada-Tdap for Adults/Adolescents  •  DTaP as 5-dose Series • CDC-Daptacel • WHO-Pertussis

Plague (Yersinia pestis):
ACIP-Plague • Bioterrorism-Plague

Pneumococcal Disease (Streptococcus pneumoniae):
Canada-Pneumococcal-Conjugate •  ACIP-Pneumococcal  • Public-Pneumococcal: NFID-#1, NFID-#2 • AAP-Pneumococcal Conjugate (Prevnar) • 
ACIP-Prevnar • Canada-Pneumococcal • WHO-Pneumococcal •
CMS's Pneumococcal Homepage • ACIP-Pneu-cochlear

Poliomyelitis: Includes Recommendations About Exclusive Use of Injectable Poliovirus Vaccine (IPV):
ACIP-Polio  • All IPV recommendation • 
Canada-Polio-Travelers

Rabies:
ACIP-Rabies  • For rabies immunization of animals, go to Animal Rabies: Compendium of Animal Rabies Control, from the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc. • Canada-Rabies • WHO-Rabies • Canada-Rabies-Travelers

Respiratory Syncytical Virus (RSV):
AAP-RSV-Policy •  AAP-RSV-Technical •  Canada-RSV 

Rotavirus:
ACIP-Rotavirus-Withdrawal  • Rotavirus-Intussusception • WHO-Rotavirus

Tetanus:
See Diphtheria & Tetanus

Rubella:
ACIP-Rubella  • Public-Rubella • 
Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) •
Rubella Vaccine-Pregnancy • WHO-Rubella

Tuberculosis & BCG Vaccine (Mycobacterium tuberculosis):
ATS-CDC-IDSA-TB   • CDC-TB Contacts   WHO-BCG • ACIP-BCG

Tuberculosis & Tuberculin Skin Testing:
ATS-CDC-IDSA-TB   • CDC-TB Contacts   •CDC-Tuberculin  • Public-TB • Anergy Skin Testing and Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy for HIV-Infected Persons: ACIP-TB-HIV-Anergy • CDC-TB-Treatment

Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi):
ACIP-Typhoid  • Canada-Typhoid •  WHO-Typhoid

Vaccinia (Smallpox Vaccine):
ACIP-Smallpox • Bioterrorism-Smallpox •
ACIP-Apr 03-Revision • CDC Smallpox Plan •
Canada-Smallpox • WHO-Smallpox •
WHO-Fenner book • Smallpox-Adverse events

Varicella (Chickenpox):
ACIP-Varicella • ACIP-Varicella-Update  • Public-Varicella-Adult • 
Canada-Varicella • Canada-Varicella-02 •
Canada-Varicella-04 •
WHO-Varicella

Yellow Fever:
WHO-Yellow Fever • ACIP-YF • YF-adverse events

Vaccine Research & Clinical Trials

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and its Division of Allergy, Immunology, & Transplantation (DAIT)

NIAID's renowned Jordan Report on vaccine research [181 pages]

Other NIAID publications on vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine research, licensing a vaccine.

New Drugs in Development, link to the series from the Pharmaceutical Researchers & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

FDA Office of Orphan Products Development

Stratton KR, Durch JS, Lawrence RS, ed. Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking. Institute of Medicine, 1999.