Vaccination coverage and its determinants among migrant children in Guangdong, China

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Recommended age, acceptable age for the 1st dose and acceptable intervals between doses of the studied vaccines: Guangdong, China, 2011

	Recommended age for routine immunization (month)	Acceptable age for the 1st dose, month (days)^a	Acceptable interval between doses, month (days)^a
BCG	birth	birth (0–1)	-
HepB
1	birth	birth (0–1)	-
2	1	-	1 (28–61)
3	6	-	59–183
OPV
1	2	2 (59–91)	-
2	3	-	28–61
3	4	-	28–61
DPT
1	3	3 (89–122)	-
2	4	-	28–61
3	5	-	28–61
MCV	8	8 (242–274)	-

^aThe minimum acceptable age for the 1st dose and the minimum acceptable interval between doses were approved by China’s MOH¹⁷. The maximum acceptable age for the 1st dose and the maximum acceptable interval between doses were determined by the recommended age for routine administration.

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