Pediatric Vaccines and Vaccinations

Abstract

This graduate textbook serves as a highly readable guide on vaccines and vaccination in infants, children and adolescents from an European perspective. The first part of the book is dedicated to childhood and adolescent vaccine schedules, maternal and neonatal immunization and safety of vaccines. In a second part we focus on viral and bacterial vaccines. Further chapters discuss pediatric travel vaccines, vaccines in the pipeline and the European registration process. This book is intended to be a reference textbook and will help to standardize the information on vaccines and immunization program in the WHO European Region. Foreword -- Part I: General Vaccinology -- Expected and unexpected effects of vaccination -- How vaccinating people can also protect others -- Childhood and adolescent immunization programmes in Europe -- Vaccine hesitancy, acceptance and demand -- Adjuvants in pediatric vaccines -- Maternal immunization -- Neonatal immunization -- Part II: Viral vaccines and vaccinations -- Poliovirus vaccines -- Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine -- Varicella vaccine -- Rotavirus vaccine -- Hepatitis A vaccine -- Hepatitis B vaccine -- Influenza vaccines -- Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines -- Tick borne encephalitis vaccines (TBE) -- Part III: Bacterial vaccines and vaccination -- Tuberculosis vaccines -- Pertussis vaccines -- Haemophilus influenza type b Hib vaccines -- Pediatric combination vaccines -- Pneumococcal vaccines -- Meningococcal vaccines -- Pediatric vaccines for travel outside Europe: yellow fever vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, typhoid vaccines, cholera vaccines, dengue vaccines, malaria vaccine -- New vaccines in pipeline development -- GBS, CMV and RSV vaccines -- Norovirus vaccines -- Registration of vaccines, safety follow-up and Paediatric Investigation Plan.