Main description:

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.

Contents:

Foreword
Part I: General Vaccinology
Expected and unexpected effects of vaccinationHow 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 developmentGBS, CMV and RSV vaccinesNorovirus vaccines
Registration of vaccines, safety follow-up and Paediatric Investigation Plan