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| N.B. Unless otherwise stated in the footnotes below, each coloured box represents one dose of pertussis vaccine. |
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The pertussis vaccine administered by the Public Health Services is the whole cell vaccine. In the Private Sector, both the whole-cell and the acellular vaccine are administered. |
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The primary course of 3 doses is recommended at 13 weeks, 17 weeks-1 year and 21 weeks-1 year of age. Booster doses are recommended at 11 months 1 week-18 months of age and at 5 years of age. |
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Given in a combined form as DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB (hexavalent vaccine) in the private sector only. A fourth dose whith the same hexavalent vaccine is given at 12-18 month in the private sector only. |
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A 5th dose recommended at 30-35 months. |
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Children born before 2002 are boosted at 10 y, children born in 2002 and later at ages 5-6 and 14-16 years. |
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This information is derived from national childhood vaccination schedules as provided to EUVAC.NET. More information is obtained from individual national schedules.
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