Questions & Answers
1.What is the best time interval for giving vaccines?
Answer 6 weeks
2.When is 1st HepB vaccine given
Answer Within 12 hours of birth
3.What is the appropriate schedule for HepB vaccine?
Answer 0-2-6 mo.
4.Treatment for babies born to HBsAg positive mothers?
When are they tested for HBsAg?
Answer 1. Hepatitis B vaccine series at 0, 2, 6
2.Immune globulin within 12 hours of birth.
3.Test for HepB after hepatitis series is completed
5.When is Rotavirus vaccine (Rota) given- How many vaccines are in
the series?
Answer 3 doses from 6 weeks-32 weeks
6.When must the last dose of Rotavirus vaccine be given by?
Answer 32 weeks (8 mo.)
,7.When are the DTaP vaccines given in the first year?
Answer 2-4-6
8.What is the upper limit of age for DTaP vaccine?
Answer 7 years old.
9.When are the two boosters of DTaP given?
Answer 15 mo 6 years
10.When is TDaP given? Initial and Booster?
Answer 1. 11 years old
2. every 10 years for life
11.What is HIB schedule for initial 3
series? Booster?
Answer 2-4-6
12 months
12.What is the earliest age the HIB vaccine is
given? Latest age?
Answer 6 weeks
5 years old
13.What interval is Pneumococcal vaccine given?
, Answer 2-4-6
14.When is pneumococcal vaccine given in first
year? When is booster given?
Who gets a Second booster and when?
Answer Vaccines 2, 4, 6, #1 Booster 12mo
#2 Booster 24 mo for immunocompromised
15.Who should receive an extra dose of pneumococcal vaccine? When?
Answer Im- muno-compromised
2 years old.
16.What interval is the polio vaccine given?
Answer 2-4-6
17.What allergy is concerning with polio vaccine?
Answer Streptomycin
18.Which polio vaccine contains 'live' virus
Answer OPV
19.When is polio booster given?
Answer 6 years old
20.What is concern with OPV and immunocompromised family?
, Answer Cannot be around immunocompromised individuatls for 6
weeks due to viral shedding
21.When in influenza vaccine started?
Answer 6 mo.
22.How is first round of influenza vaccine different from subsequent
yearly vaccines?
Answer < 9 y.o.= two doses @ 1 mo apart
23.If infant exposed to MMR, how can vaccine schedule be ammended?
Answer Can give as early as 6 mo. but needs to continue with regular
schedule of 3 after that.
24.Who is varicella NOT recommended for?
Answer Immunocompromised.
25.When is Varicella vaccine given?
Booster?
Answer between 12mo-12 years (two doses, three months apart)
(*Ideally, 12 months and 4-6 y.o.)
26.How should varicella and MMR be given
Answer Separated by one month