Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Conjugate Vaccine

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The Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine, also known as Hib vaccine, is a vaccine used to prevent Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection.[2] In countries that include it as a routine vaccine, rates of severe Hib infections have decreased more than 90%.[2] It has therefore resulted in a decrease in the rate of meningitis, pneumonia, and epiglottitis.[2] It is recommended by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for...

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Hepatitis B vaccine is a vaccine that prevents hepatitis B.[10] The first dose is recommended within 24 hours of birth with either two or three more doses given after that.[10] This includes those with poor immune function such as from HIV/AIDS and those born premature.[10] It is also recommended that health-care workers be vaccinated.[11] In healthy people routine immunization results in more than 95% of people being protected.&...

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The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus.[6] The vaccine components include diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and either killed whole cells of the bacterium that causes pertussis or pertussis antigens. The whole cells or antigens will be depicted as either "DTwP" or "DTaP", where the lower-case "w" indicates whole-cell inactivated pertussis and the lower-case ...