ACIP immunization update.
Journal of Family Practice, 2010
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) made a number of major new recommendations last year.
These new recommendations address: expanded use of hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccine; preferences for combination vaccines; timing of poliovirus vaccine doses; resumption of the normal Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) schedule, as shortages have resolved; the use of a new bivalent human papilloma virus (HPV2) vaccine in women and quadrivalent (HPV4) vaccine in men; a reduced-dose schedule for rabies postexposure prophylaxis; proof of immunity against mumps, measles, and rubella for health care workers; and recommendations for meningococcal vaccine boosters.
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