Hexavalent vaccines: characteristics of available products and practical considerations from a panel of Italian experts in Public Health

Abstract

Combination vaccines represent a valuable technological innovation in the field of infectious disease prevention and public health, because of their great health and economic value from the individual, societal, and healthcare system perspectives.

In order to increase parents’ and healthcare professionals’ confidence in the vaccination programs and maintain their benefits to society, more information about the benefits of innovative vaccination tools such as combination vaccines is needed.

Purpose of this work is an examination of available hexavalent vaccines, that protect against Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Poliomyelitis, Hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b infections. From the epidemiological updates of vaccine preventable diseases to the vaccine development cycle, from the immunogenicity of antigenic components to the safety and co-administration with other vaccines, several aspects of available hexavalent vaccines are discussed and deepened.

Also a number of practical considerations on schedules, age of employment, strategies for vaccination recovery, vaccination in at-risk births are issued, based on the recommendations of Italian Ministry of Health, Italian Society of Pharmacology (SIF), Italian Society for Pediatrics (SIP), Italian Federation of Family Paediatricians (FIMP) and Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI).
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