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Who receives immunisations?

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  • Childhood schedule
  • Specialist patient groups
  • Occupational hazards
  • Travelers
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Who receives prophylactic medications?

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  • Travelers
  • Post exposure
  • Post-exposure HIV
  • Surgical
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What are the 2 types of immunity?

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  • Innate immunity

- Adaptive immunity

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What are the types of adaptive immunity?

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Natural

  • Passive (maternal)
  • Active (infection)

Artificial

  • Passive (antibody transfer)
  • Active (immunisation)
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What is your innate immune system?

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Immunity you are born with

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What is adaptive immunity?

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Immunity when the body adapts to the environment and stimuli which can be natural or artificial

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Who created the smallpox vaccine?

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Edward Jenner

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What types of vaccines are there?

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  • Live attenuated
  • Inactivated (killed)
  • Detoxified exotoxin
  • Subunit of micro-organism (purified microbial products or recombinant)
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Give examples of live attenuated vaccines.

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  • Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
  • BCG
  • Varicella-zoster virus
  • Yellow fever
  • Smallpox
  • Typhoid (oral)
  • Polio (oral)
  • Rotavirus (oral)
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Give examples of inactivated vaccines.

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  • Polio (in combined vaccine D/T/P/Hib)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Cholera (oral)
  • Rabies
  • Japanese encephalitis
  • Tick-borne encephalitis
  • Influenza
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How are detoxified exotoxin vaccines created?

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Toxin is treated with formalin to form a toxoid

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Give examples of detoxified exotoxin vaccines.

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  • Diphtheria

- Tetanus

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Give examples of subunit vaccines.

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  • Pertussis (acellular)
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b
  • Meningococcus (group C) (conjugated: capsular polysaccharide antigen & Corynebacterium diphtheria protein)
  • Pneumococcus
  • Typhoid
  • Anthrax
  • Hepatitis B
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Describe how recombinant vaccines are created using hepatitis B as an example.

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  • DNA segment coding for HBsAg is removed, purified and mixed with plasmids
  • It is inserted into yeast and fermented
  • HBsAg is produced
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What is a secondary response to an infection known as?

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Immunological memory

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Describe the primary antibody response to infection

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Primary

  • Delayed response
  • IgM increases followed by IgG

Secondary

  • Almost immediate response
  • IgM response followed by IgG
  • IgG continues to rise after IgM begins to fall
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Describe the immune response to killed and live vaccines

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Killed

  • Response increases and decreases
  • After each administration the immune response increases, building immunity

Live
-After first dose immunity grows and plateaus

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What are the components of the 6 in 1 Infanrix hexa vaccine?

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  • D= purified diphtheria toxoid
  • T= purified tetanus toxoid
  • aP= purified Bordetella pertussis
  • IPV= inactivated polio virus
  • Hib= purified component of Haemophilus influenzae b
  • HBV= hepatitis B rDNA
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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 2 months

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  • 6 in 1
  • Pneumococcal conjugate
  • Rotavirus
  • Men B
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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 3 months

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  • 6 in 1

- Rotavirus

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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 4 months

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  • 6 in 1
  • Pneumococcal conjugate
  • Men B
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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 1 year

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  • Hip/Men C
  • MMR
  • Pneumococcal conjugate
  • Men B
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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 2-8 years

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-Influenza nasal

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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 3-5 years

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  • 4 in 1 booster (DTaP/IPV)

- MMR

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UK childhood immunisation schedule: girls 12-13
HPV
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UK childhood immunisation schedule: 14 years
- 3 in 1 booster (dT/IPV) | - Men ACWY
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What is herd immunity?
When sufficient levels of the population are immunised, those who aren't (unable to be) should be protected as well
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What immunisations are associated with special patient and occupation groups?
- BCG - Influenza - Pneumococcal - Hepatitis B - Varicella-zoster (chickenpox) - Herpes-zoster (shingles)
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Who receives the BCG vaccine?
- Some infants 0-12 months who are in high risk areas or have parents/grandparents born in high risk areas - New immigrants from high risk areas - Contacts (<35 years) of respiratory TB patients - Healthcare workers - Children screened at school for TB risk factors, tested and vaccinated if appropriate
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What are the indications for the influenza vaccine?
- Age >65 years - Nursing home residents - Some health care workers - Immunodeficiency, - Immunosuppression - Asplenia/hyposplenism - Chronic liver disease - Chronic renal disease - Chronic cardiac disease - Chronic lung disease - Diabetes mellitus - Coeliac disease - Pregnant women - Heath care workers
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What is the influenza vaccine?
- A new vaccine each year to protect against Influenza A and B - A and B change antigenic structure (Haemagluttins,H and neraminidases, N on the surface of the virus) - Single dose, caution in egg allergies
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What are the 2 pneumococcal vaccinations available?
Pneumococcal conjugate polysaccharide vaccine(13 serotypes) - Childhood immunisation schedule - 3 doses Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (23 serotypes) - For those at increased risk of infection - Single dose
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What are the indications for the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine?
- Immunodeficiency - Immunosuppression - Asplenia/hyposplenism - Sickle cell disease - Chronic liver disease - Chronic renal disease - Chronic cardiac disease - Chronic lung disease - Diabetes mellitus - Coeliac disease
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Who receives the hepatitis B vaccination?
- All new born children from 2018 (6-in-1) - Children at high risk of exposure to HBV - Health care workers, PWID, MSM, prisoners, ch. liver disease, ch. kidney disease, - Given at 0, 1 month, 2 months and 1 year
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Who receives the varicella-zoster vaccine?
- Patients who have a suppressed immune systems, for example having cancer treatment or organ transplant - Children if in contact with those at risk of severe vzv - Health case workers (if sero-neg and in contact with patients)
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What type of vaccine is the VZ vaccine?
Live attenuated
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What type of vaccine is the herpes-zoster vaccine?
Live attenuated
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Who receives the herpes zoster vaccine?
All elderly patients (70-80 years)
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What is human normal immunoglobulin?
- Contains antibodies against hepatitis A, rubella, measles - Used in immunoglobulin deficiencies - Treatment of some autoimmune disorders, e.g. myasthenia gravis
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Give examples of disease specific immunoglobulins (post-exposure).
- Hepatitis B Ig - Rabies Ig - Tetanus anti-toxin Ig - Varicella (chickenpox) Ig - Diphtheria anti-toxin Ig (horse) - Botulinum anti-toxin Ig
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What risk assessment must be carried out when thinking about immunising travellers?
- Health of Traveller - Previous immunisation and prophylaxis - Area to be visited - Duration of visit - Accommodation - Activities - Remote areas - Recent outbreaks
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Where can you find out information about travel requirements?
- BNF - Green book - Internet - Schools of tropical medicine
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What general measures be taken into account when traveling?
- Care with food/water - Hand washing - Sunburn / Sunstroke - Altitude - Road traffic accidents - Safer sex - Mosquitoes - bed nets, sprays, “cover up”
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What are common immunisations for travellers?
- Tetanus - Polio - Typhoid - Hepatitis A - Yellow fever (requires a yellow certificate once received as evidence) - Cholera
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What are some specific immunisations required for some travellers?
- Meningococcus A, C, W, Y - Rabies - Diphtheria - Japanese B encephalitis - Tick borne encephalitis
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What is the ABCD of malaria prevention?
- Awareness of risk - Bite prevention - Chemoprophylaxis - Diagnosis and treatment
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How can mosquito bites be prevented?
- Cover-up at dawn and dusk - Insect repellent sprays, lotions (DEET) - Mosquito coils - Permethrin-impregnated mosquito nets
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What chemoprophylaxis is there against malaria?
Malarone -Daily Doxycycline - Not for <12 years - Photosensitivity Mefloquine - Weekly - Side effects: psychosis, nightmares - Avoid if history of psychosis or epilepsy Chloroquine - Weekly and proquanil daily - For vivax/ovale/malariae only
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What is the malaria advice for travellers on return?
- Any illness occurring within 1 year and especially within 3 months of return might be malaria - Patients should seek medical attention if become they ill particularly within 3 months and mention malaria risk

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