ATLANTA -- In certain cases where the tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine is recommended, clinicians may substitute the tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine, the CDC's Advisory ...

ACIP recommends the use of either Tdap or Td in situations where Td only was previously recommended. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has updated recommendations to allow for ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency braces for a potential shortage of those shots this year. Doctors should ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Healio’s coverage of the unanimous CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vote that recommended Tdap ...

Off-label use of tetanus-diptheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in senior patients results in no more adverse events than the tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine, a US study shows. The authors ...

Elderly people who received a tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (TDaP) were no more likely to suffer adverse reactions than others who received a tetanus and diphtheria vaccine (Td), ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously today to recommend that either Td or Tdap may be used for the decennial Td booster, as tetanus prophylaxis for wound management ...

With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts say. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious respiratory ...

What is Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis? Tetanus is caused by a germ that enters the body through a cut or a wound. Tetanus (Lockjaw) causes painful tightening of the muscles all over the body and ...

Tdap, Pertussis Updated recommendations for the use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine have been developed by the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...