GIDEON Guide to Vaccines and Globulin Preparations

GIDEON Guide to Vaccines and Globulin Preparations summarizes the status of 91 generic human vaccines and globulin preparations.

The book consists of two sections, vaccines and routine vaccination schedules.

The first section consists of an alphabetical list of generic vaccine names, each divided into the following subsections:

• Mechanism of action and content
• Typical dosage for adults and children
• Timing of booster vaccination
• Toxicity
• Contraindications
• Proprietary (trade) names

The second section presents an alphabetical listing of countries, each followed by its standard routine vaccination schedule.

This is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard textbooks and peer-review journals, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature.