Dtap has a 70% success rate.
Dtap: The Dtap vaccine is the form
doctors often use for very young children.
In the United States,
the recommended pertussis vaccine for babies and children is called Dtap.
Dtap/IPV/Hib is recommended for all children from two months up to ten years of age.
Dtap/IPV/Hib is recommended for all infants from two months up to ten years of age.
Dtap/IPV/Hib is recommended for primary vaccination
of all infants from 2 months up to 10 years of age.
These supply constraints
do not affect the hexavalent vaccine(Dtap/IPV/Hib/HepB)due to be used in the routine childhood immunisation programme.
Dtap/IPV: for pregnant women from 20 weeks
of gestation to protect the newborn baby against whooping cough(Boostrix-IPV® or Repevax®).
The first dose is usually given at the same time as the first and third routine Dtap/IPV/Hib vaccine(see above).
Dtap(also DTPa and TDaP)
is a combined vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, in which the pertussis component is acellular.
Babies and
children younger than 7 years old receive Dtap or DT, while older children
and adults receive Tdap and Td.
Dtap/IPV/Hib should be used to complete
a primary course that has been started with a whole-cell or another acellular pertussis preparation.
They should then receive the first reinforcing dose as scheduled,
also as Dtap/IPV(or Dtap/IPV/Hib),
preferably allowing a minimum interval of one year.
Dtap and DT are given to children under 7 years old, while
Tdap and Td are given to older children and adults.
The Dtap/IPV vaccine,
which contains a lower dose of pertussis antigen, should only be used as a booster in fully primed children.
Dtap and DT are given to children under 7 years old, while Tdap
and Td are given to older children, teenagers, and adults.
Dtap and DT are given to children younger than seven years of age where
as Tdap and Td are given to older children and adults.
Two of these(Dtap and DT) are given to children younger than 7 years of age,
and two(Tdap and Td) are given to older children and adults.
After the boy's lengthy and near-fatal hospital stay,
the doctors emphasized to his parents that he should get the next four Dtap doses and his other vaccinations.
Similarly, children who present first for
the preschool booster without any pertussis, should also receive Dtap/IPV(or Dtap/IPV/Hib)
as priming and reinforcing doses, preferably allowing a minimum interval of one year.