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Diphtheria vaccine: WHO position paper, August 2017 – Recommendations

World Health Organization·2018·Vaccine
DOI 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.08.024
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Abstract

This article presents the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations on the use of diphtheria vaccines excerpted from the Diphtheria vaccines: WHO position paper, August 2017, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record (Diphtheria vaccine, 2017) [1]. This position paper replaces the 2006 WHO position paper on diphtheria vaccine (Diphtheria vaccine, 2006) [2]. The position paper incorporates recent evidence on diphtheria and provides revised recommendations on the optimal number of doses and timing of diphtheria vaccination. In view of the widespread use of combination vaccines, it provides guidance on the alignment of vaccination schedules for different antigens included in routine childhood immunization programmes. Footnotes to this paper provide a number of core references including references to grading tables that assess the quality of the scientific evidence, and to the evidence-to-recommendation table. In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against diseases that have an international public health impact. These papers are concerned primarily with the use of vaccines in large-scale immunization programmes; they summarize essential background information on diseases and vaccines, and conclude with WHO's current position on the use of vaccines in the global context. Recommendations on the use of diphtheria vaccines were discussed by SAGE in April 2017; evidence presented at these meetings can be accessed at: www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2017/april/presentations_background_docs/en/.

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  • Provision of five or six doses of tetanus or diphtheria vaccine in childhood provides lifelong protection.

    “It is known that provision of five or six doses of tetanus45 or diphtheria46 vaccine in childhood provides lifelong protection”

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  • Diphtheria vaccine: WHO position paper, August 2017, Weekly epidemiological record, No. 31; 2017. p. 92, 417–36.

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  • Diphtheria vaccine: WHO position paper, 2006, Weekly epidemiological record, No. 3; 2006. p. 21–32.

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  • Evidence to recommendation table. Evidence to recommendation table. Available at <http://www.who.int/immunization/policy/position_papers/diphtheria_evidence_recommendation_table.pdf>.

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  • Tetanus vaccines: WHO position paper – February 2017, Weekly epidemiological record, No. 6; 2017. p. 53–76.

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  • Reducing pain at the time of vaccination: WHO position paper – September 2015, Weekly epidemiological record, No. 39; 2015. p. 505–10.

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Authors
World Health Organization
Affiliations
World Health Organization (CH)
Corresponding author
World Health Organization
Venue
Vaccine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-01
Volume
36
Issue
2
Pages
199-201
ISSN
0264-410X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.08.024
OpenAlex
W4210337534
Cited by
79
References
5
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2
FWCI
3.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Vaccine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
World Health Organization
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Endocrinology › Diphtheria, Corynebacterium, and Tetanus
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology › Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
  • Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Keywords
diphtheria vaccine, diphtheria, vaccination schedule, vaccine dose number, vaccination timing, combined vaccine, childhood immunization, routine immunization, WHO guidelines
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Diphtheria, Diphtheria Toxoid, Humans, Immunization Schedule, Infant, Global Health, World Health Organization

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