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Table 1 Routine vaccination schedule in Venezuela, 2011

From: Vaccination Week in the Americas, 2011: an opportunity to assess the routine vaccination program in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Vaccine

Recommended age(s)

Year of introduction

BCG1

Birth

1940s

Hepatitis B (1st dose)

Birth

2000

Yellow fever

1 year

2000

OPV2

  

 - Primary series

2 m, 4 m, 6 m

1960s

 - Booster

18 m, 5 years

2009

Pentavalent3

 

2004

 - Primary series

2 m, 4 m, 6 m

 

 - Pentavalent4 (1st DTP Booster)

18 m

 

Rotavirus

2 m, 4 m

2006 (modified 2009)

DTP4

  

 - 2nd DTP booster

5 years

2009

MMR5

1 year, 5 years

MMR 1 (1998); MMR 2 (2009)

Td6

10 years, women of childbearing age, adults

2009 (replaced TT, used since the 1950s)

Influenza (annual)

6-23 months

2006

>60 years

High-risk groups

23-valent pneumococcal

>60 years

2008

  1. m = months.
  2. 1 BCG = Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.
  3. 2 OPV = oral poliovirus vaccine.
  4. 3 Pentavalent = diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis B vaccines.
  5. 4 DTP = diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccine.
  6. 5 MMR = measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
  7. 6 Td = Tetanus and diphtheria toxoids for older children and adults.