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Summary of Major Changes in the 2006 Red Book
MAJOR CHANGES: GENERAL
All chapters and sections are updated.
Many new Web sites are added and are placed in bold throughout the text for ease of access.
The electronic image library, available through Red Book Online (www.aapredbook.org) and Red Book Plus, has been expanded with over 1800 slides, including more than 500 new slides, and reorganized to better complement the text subsections of chapters in Section 3.
SECTION 1. ACTIVE AND PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION
Prologue. Table 1.1 is updated to include the baseline 20th century annual morbidity and 2004 morbidity from 10 diseases with vaccines recommended before 1990 for universal use in children in the United States.
Sources of Vaccine Information. A Web site is added that provides the CDC and private sector costs of pediatric and adolescent vaccines.
Informing Patients and Parents. A Web site is added to Table 1.2 that provides the status of vaccine information sheets.
Parental Concerns About Immunization and Parental Refusal of Immunization. Previously titled Risk Communication, these portions describe factors that contribute to concerns parents have about immunization.
Vaccines Licensed and Distributed in the United States. Table 1.3 (p 10) lists vaccines produced and/or licensed in the United States. Additions since 2003 include tetanus and diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines for adolescents and adults, meningococcal conjugate vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine, and rotavirus vaccine.
Vaccine Handling and Storage. Information is updated to clarify appropriate equipment for storing vaccines, describe the role of personnel who handle vaccines, and update procedures that should be used to store vaccines. Table 1.4 (p 13) is updated and simplified.
Site and Route of Immunization. An intranasal vaccine section is added for live-attenuated influenza vaccine. Table 1.5 (p 21) is added showing site
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Related text in Red Book:
- Introduction
Red Book 2006: xviii.[Extract] [Full Version] - Parental Refusal of Immunization
Red Book 2006: 7-8.[Extract] [Full Version] - Active Immunization
Red Book 2006: 9-10.[Extract] [Full Version] - Vaccine Safety and Contraindications
Red Book 2006: 39-41.[Extract] [Full Version] - Vaccine Handling and Storage
Red Book 2006: 12-18.[Extract] [Full Version] - Vaccine Administration
Red Book 2006: 18-22.[Extract] [Full Version] - Minimum Ages and Minimum Intervals Between Vaccine Doses
Red Book 2006: 25-33.[Extract] [Full Version] - Pregnancy
Red Book 2006: 69-71.[Extract] [Full Version] - Immunocompromised Children
Red Book 2006: 71-85.[Extract] [Full Version] - Prevention of Mosquitoborne Infections
Red Book 2006: 197-199.[Extract] [Full Version] - Prevention of Illnesses Associated with Recreational Water Use
Red Book 2006: 199-200.[Extract] [Full Version] - Isolation Precautions
Red Book 2006: 154-160.[Extract] [Full Version] - Pneumococcal Infections
Red Book 2006: 525-537.[Extract] [Full Version] - Syphilis
Red Book 2006: 631-644.[Extract] [Full Version] - Tetanus (Lockjaw)
Red Book 2006: 648-653.[Extract] [Full Version] - Toxoplasma gondii Infections (Toxoplasmosis)
Red Book 2006: 666-671.[Extract] [Full Version] - Tuberculosis
Red Book 2006: 678-698.[Extract] [Full Version] - Haemophilus influenzae Infections
Red Book 2006: 310-318.[Extract] [Full Version] - Hepatitis B
Red Book 2006: 335-355.[Extract] [Full Version] - Herpes Simplex
Red Book 2006: 361-371.[Extract] [Full Version] - Meningococcal Infections
Red Book 2006: 452-460.[Extract] [Full Version] - Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Red Book 2006: 498-520.[Extract] [Full Version] - Antiviral Drugs
Red Book 2006: 785-789.[Extract] [Full Version] - Drugs for Parasitic Infections
Red Book 2006: 790-820.[Extract] [Full Version] - Drug Interactions
Red Book 2006: 741-749.[Extract] [Full Version] - Tables of Antibacterial Drug Dosages
Red Book 2006: 750-765.[Extract] [Full Version] - Sexually Transmitted Infections
Red Book 2006: 766-773.[Extract] [Full Version] - Directory of Resources
Red Book 2006: 839-843.[Extract] [Full Version] - Guide to Contraindications and Precautions to Immunizations, 2006
Red Book 2006: 847-851.[Extract] [Full Version] - National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Reporting and Compensation Table.
Red Book 2006: 852-855.[Extract] [Full Version] - Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the United States
Red Book 2006: 870-871.[Extract] [Full Version]
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