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IAP Textbook of Vaccines
First Edition: 2014
9789350909478
Printed at
5Dedication
This endeavor of the Academy is dedicated to:
“The children of this great country—The future of our nation”
7IAP Committee on Immunization (IAPCOI), 2011–13
CHAIRPERSONS
Rohit Agrawal
TU Sukumaran
CONVENER
Vipin M Vashishtha
MEMBERS
Amarjeet Chitkara
Manjori Mitra
S Sanjay
SG Kasi
Suhas V Prabhu
ADVISORS
Nitin K Shah
Raju C Shah
Naveen Thacker
A Parthasarathy
EX-OFFICIO
Panna Choudhury (Chairman, IAPCOI, 2009–11)
Vijay N Yewale (Convener, IAPCOI, 2009–11)
Sailesh Gupta, Honorary Secretary General, IAP
Ritabrata Kundu, Chairperson, Infectious Diseases Chapter of IAP
Abhay K Shah, Secretary, Infectious Diseases Chapter of IAP
9IAP Advisory Committee of Vaccines and Immunization Practices (ACVIP), 2013–14
CHAIRPERSON
CP Bansal
CO-CHAIRPERSONS
Rohit Agarwal
Vijay N Yewale
CONVENER
Vipin M Vashishtha
IAP COORDINATOR (HSG)
Sailesh Gupta
MEMBERS
Shashi Vani
Anuradha Bose
Ajay Kalra
AK Patwari
Surjit Singh
CONSULTANTS
Narendra K Arora
Naveen Thacker
Rajesh Kumar
Ajay Gambhir
VG Ramachandran
HP Sachdev
RAPPORTEUR
Panna Choudhury
11Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Vipin M Vashishtha md fiap
- Director and Consultant Pediatrician
- Mangla Hospital and Research Center
- Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India
Editors
- Rohit Agrawal mbbs dch md
- Director, Chandrajyoti Childrens Hospital Mumbai
- Consultant Pediatrician, Kohinoor Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- TU Sukumaran md dch mnams
- Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Institute of Child Health and Children Hospital
- Government Medical College
- Kottayam, Kerala, India
Academic Editors
- Nitin K Shah mbbs md dch
- Consultant Pediatric Hemato-oncologist
- PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Naveen Thacker md (ped) fiap
- Director, Deep Children Hospital and Research Center
- Head, Department of Pediatrics Sahyadri Ramkrishna Specialty Hospital
- Kutch, Gujarat, India
- Panna Choudhury mbbs dch md fiap fimsa frstmh fams
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Vice-Chairman, Child Health Foundation
- Executive Director
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics
- New Delhi, India
- Vijay N Yewale md dch
- Consultant
- Dr Yewale Multispecialty Hospital for Children
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Associate Editors
- CP Bansal md pd dap fiap
- Director and Consultant Pediatrician
- Shabd Pratap Hospital
- Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- A Parthasarathy md dch mnams
- Distinguished Professor
- The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University
- Retired Senior Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
- Madras Medical College
- Deputy Superintendent
- Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children
- Anju Aggarwal md (ped) mnams fiap
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rohit Agrawal mbbs dch md
- Director, Chandrajyoti Childrens Hospital
- Consultant Pediatrician, Kohinoor Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Shilpa Khanna Arora mbbs md
- Senior Resident
- Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Narendra K Arora mbbs md dm
- Executive Director
- The INCLEN Trust International and CHNRI
- Okhla, New Delhi, India
- S Balasubramanian md dch frcpch (uk) mnams fia
- Senior Consultant Pediatrician
- Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Garima Bang md
- Senior Resident
- Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Till Bärnighausen md scd
- Associate Professor of Global Health
- Department of Global Health and Population
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Harvard University
- Boston, USA
- Piyali Bhattacharya md
- Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist
- Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- David E Bloom ba ma phd
- Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Harvard University
- Boston, USA
- Anuradha Bose mbbs md dch mrcp frcpch
- Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Shobha Broor mbbs md
- Professor and Director (Laboratory Sciences)
- The INCLEN Trust International and CHNRI
- Okhla, New Delhi, India
- Elizabeth T Cafiero msc (global health and population)
- Department of Global Health and Population
- Harvard School of Public Health
- Harvard University
- Boston, USA
- Aruna Chandran md mph faap
- Chief of Epidemiologic Services
- Baltimore City Health Department
- Assistant Scientist
- Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics
- Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Baltimore, USA
- Thomas Cherian mbbs dch md (ped) fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases
- Coordinator, Program and Impact Monitoring
- Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals
- World Health Organization
- Geneva, Switzerland
- AJ Chitkara md dnb
- Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- Max Superspecialty Hospital
- Panna Choudhury mbbs dch md frstmh fimsa fiap fams
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Vice-Chairman, Child Health Foundation
- Executive Director, Indian Academy of Pediatrics
- New Delhi, India
- Jaydeep Choudhury mbbs dnb (ped) mnams
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Institute of Child Health
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Aashima Dabbas md
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Pooja Dewan md mnams
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- K Dhanalakshmi mbbs dnb (ped)
- Senior Registrar and Fellow
- Infectious Diseases IAP Chapter
- Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital and Childs Trust Medical Research Foundation
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Dhanya Dharmapalan mbbs md
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Dr Yewale Multispecialty Hospital for Children
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- AK Dutta md
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Anil Dutta mbbs md (ped)
- Vice-President
- Clinical Research and Development and Medical Affairs GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium
- MMA Faridi md dch mnams fiap
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sean Patrick Fitzwater mhs
- Research Associate
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Department of International Health
- Baltimore, USA
- Nathalie Garçon pharmd phd
- Vice-President and Head
- Global Adjuvant Center for Vaccine Development
- GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines
- Wavre, Belgium
- Andrea Gay msc (biology and city planning)
- Executive Director of Children's Health
- United Nations Foundation
- Washington DC, USA
- Canna Jagdish Ghia mbbs md
- Medical Advisor
- Pfizer Limited
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Nicholas C Grassly dphil
- Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Imperial College, London
- London, UK
- Lisa A Grohskopf md mph
- Medical Officer
- Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Piyush Gupta md fams fiap
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- University College of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Satish K Gupta phd fna fnasc fasc fnams
- Deputy Director, National Institute of Immunology (NII)
- Chief, Reproductive Cell Biology Laboratory, NII
- New Delhi, India
- Alok Gupta md fiap
- Chairperson, Environment and Child Health Group of IAP
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Pramod Jog mbbs md
- Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- DY Patil Medical College
- T Jacob John mbbs dch frcp fiap
- Formerly, Professor and Head
- Department of Virology
- Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Jacob John mbbs md
- Associate Professor
- Department of Community Health
- Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Geoffrey David Kahn msph
- Research Associate
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Department of International Health
- Baltimore, USA
- Ajay Kalra md dch mnams fiap
- Erstwhile Professor, SN Medical College, Agra
- Head of the Department
- Rural Institute of Medical Sciences, Saifai
- Consultant, Child Health, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Deepak Kamat md phd faap
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Vice-Chair of Education, Department of Pediatrics
- Wayne State University, Children's Hospital of Michigan
- Detroit, USA
- Gagandeep Kang md
- Professor
- Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences
- Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- SG Kasi mbbs dch md (ped)
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Member, IAPCOI 2011–12 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Satyena Katewa dch dnb mbbs
- Consultant
- Pediatric Oncologist
- Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant
- BLK Super Specialty Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Amrit Koirala bsc medical laboratory technology (pursuing msc medical microbiology)
- Student, Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Puneet Kumar mbbs miap
- Consultant
- Kumar Child Clinic
- Dwarka, New Delhi, India
- Ritabrata Kundu md
- Professor, Department of Pediatric Medicine
- Institute of Child Health
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Kathryn E Lafond mph
- Influenza Division Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Chandrakant Lahariya md dnb mnams pgdhhm
- Formerly, Assistant Professor
- Department of Community Medicine
- GR Medical College
- Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Renu B Lal md
- Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Mukta Mantan
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- Maulana Azad Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Ambika Mathur md phd
- Program Director, Interim Dean
- Graduate School, Wayne State University
- Detroit, USA
- Premasish Mazumdar mbbs md dm (neonatology)
- Specialist, Premature and Newborn Diseases
- Amit Jaggi Memorial Hospital
- Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Parang N Mehta md (ped)
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Mehta Hospital
- Surat, Gujarat, India
- Pravin J Mehta md dch
- Consulting Pediatrician
- Jack-N-Jill Nursing Home and Hindusabha Hospital
- Lalitha Mendis mbbs (cey) md (col) phd (lond) dp bact (manch) f nat acad sciences sl hon fell slcgp
- Emeritus Professor
- Department of Microbiology
- University of Colombo
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Geeta MG md
- Additional Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Government Medical College
- Kozhikode, Kerala, India
- Saheli Misra mbbs mrcp (uk) dnb (ped)
- Assistant Professor
- Institute of Child Health
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Monjori Mitra dch dnb
- Associate Professor
- Institute of Child Health
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Archisman Mohapatra mbbs md
- Resident
- Department of Community Medicine, IMS (BHU)
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Sally Mossman phd
- Head of Viral Vaccine Program GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
- Rixensart, Belgium
- PV Murthy dch md (ped)
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Venturi Clinic, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Pritesh Nagar mbbs md
- Academic Coordinator and In-Charge ICUS
- Department of Pediatrics
- Aditya Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Christopher Nelson md
- Director, Coalition against Typhoid Secretariat
- Sabin Vaccine Institute
- Washington DC, USA
- Jennifer Carroll O'Brien md mph
- Assocaite Professor
- University of Rochester Medical Center Brown Square Health Center
- Rochester, New York, USA
- R Leon Ochiai d phil mhs
- Research Scientist
- International Vaccine Institute
- Seoul, South Korea
- Sameer Parekh bhms mba
- Manager, Medical Affairs and Clinical Trials
- Serum Institute of India Ltd
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- A Parthasarathy md dch mnams
- Distinguished Professor
- The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University
- Retired Senior Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
- Madras Medical College
- Deputy Superintendent
- Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Alberta Di Pasquale phd (vaccinology)
- Director, Early Projects Global Medical Affairs
- GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
- London, UK
- Yash Paul mbbs dch
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Maharaja Agrasen Hospital
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- Harish K Pemde md
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- VG Ramachandran mbbs md
- Professor, Department of Microbiology
- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Gautam Rambhad md
- Associate Director
- Medical Services
- Wyeth Limited
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Amit Rawat md (pathology) pdcc (laboratory immunology)
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
- Advanced Pediatric Center
- Anupam Sachdeva md
- Consultant Pediatrician and Director
- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Siddhartha Saha md
- Public Health Specialist
- India Influenza Center
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Sushant Sahastrabuddhe mbbs mph
- Associate Research Scientist
- International Vaccine Institute
- Seoul, South Korea
- Mathuram Santosham md mph
- Professor
- Director, Health Systems Program
- Director, Center for American Indian Health
- Professor, International Health and Pediatrics
- Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, USA
- Nitin K Shah mbbs md dch
- Consultant Pediatric Hemato-oncologist
- PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Raju C Shah md dped fiap
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- GCS Medical College
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Pratima Shah mbbs md dped
- Former Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- SBKS Medical College
- Ankur Institute of Child Health
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Abhay K Shah mbbs (gold medalist) dped (uni first) md (gold medalist)
- Director
- Dr Abhay K Shah Children Hospital
- Honorary Secretary, Id Chapter of IAP
- President, IAP Gujarat
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Arun Shah md dch fiap fiams
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Brahampura
- Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India
- Himani Shah mbbs md fcps
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Chandrajyoti Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Hitt Sharma mbbs pgdct pdcr
- Additional Director
- Department of Medical Affairs and Clinical Trials
- Serum Institute of India Ltd
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Sangeeta Sharma mbbs md (pharmacology)
- Head, National institute TB and Respiratory Diseases
- Member Secretary, National Technical Working Group on Pediatric TB, MoHFW, GoI
- New Delhi, India
- Digant D Shastri md (ped) fiap pgdhhm
- Chief Consultant Pediatrician and CEO Killol Children Hospital
- NICU and Vaccination Center
- Surat, Gujarat, India
- Surjit Singh md dch (lon) frcp (lon) frcpch (lon) fiap fams
- Professor of Pediatrics and Chief
- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit
- Advanced Pediatric Center
- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- Tanu Singhal msc (tropical medicine & international health) md (ped)
- Consultant
- Pediatrics and Infectious Disease
- Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Sanjay Srirampur md
- Head, Department of Pediatrics
- Aditya Hospital
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Kamath SS mbbs dch md
- Medical Director and Consultant Pediatrician
- Welcare Hospital
- Wayne Sullender md
- Visiting Professor
- Childrens Hospital
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
- A Sumanth mbbs dch dnb (ped)
- Senior Registrar, Department of Pediatrics
- Kanchi Kamakoti Childs Trust Hospital and the Childs Trust
- Medical Research Foundation
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Fernanda Tavares md
- Director, Therapeutic Area Head
- GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines
- Wavre Nord, Building W23 Avenue Fleming
- Wavre, Belgium
- Naveen Thacker md (ped) fiap
- Director, Deep Children Hospital and Research Center
- Head, Department of Pediatrics
- Sahyadri Ramkrishna Specialty Hospital
- Kutch, Gujarat, India
- Satish Kamtaprasad Tiwari md (ped) llb fiap ibclc
- Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Memorial Medical College, Amravati
- Founder President
- Indian Medicolegal and Ethics Association
- Amaravati, Maharashtra, India
- Jeeson C Unni md dch fiap
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Dr Kunhalu's Nursing Home
- Cochin, Kerala, India
- Shashi N Vani mbbs md d ped fiap
- Emeritus Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- PS Medical College, Karamsad, Gujarat
- Retired Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology
- BJ Medical College
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Vipin M Vashishtha md fiap
- Director and Consultant Pediatrician
- Mangla Hospital and Research Center
- Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Jignesh Ved mbbs md pgdmm
- Senior Medical Advisor
- Pfizer India Limited
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Sanjay Verma md
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- Advanced Pediatric Center
- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- Marc-Alain Widdowson md
- National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Disease
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Sangeeta Yadav md fiap
- Director Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Maulana Azad Medical College and Associated Hospitals
- University of Delhi
- New Delhi, India
- Vijay N Yewale md dch
- Consultant
- Dr Yewale Multispecialty Hospital for Children
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Rajeev Zachariah md dch
- Well Baby Clinic
- Department of Child Health Christian Medical College
- Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Diseases preventable by vaccination are disappearing all over the world as vaccine coverage increases. Certain infectious diseases have been essentially eliminated from the Americas, and although Europe is lagging behind in some respects, even there, epidemics of diseases, for which we have vaccines are unusual. That is not to say that the picture is completely rosy. Failure to vaccinate is a problem in isolated populations and some of our vaccines do not give high efficacy, owing to poor immune responses in particular patient groups or incomplete knowledge about the correlates of protection.
India and neighboring countries have presented special problems. Until recently, governmental interest in the introduction of new vaccines has been limited, perhaps because of a focus on polio eradication. In addition, the vast number of potential vaccinees does not make either routine or campaign distribution easy. Fortunately, the situation is changing for several reasons: the growing interest of physicians, the manifest importance of Asian vaccine manufacturers, and a greater understanding by governments that vaccination carries economic as well as health benefits.
Like politics, all vaccination must be local. Although the sixth edition of an international vaccine textbook, which I had the honor to edit, was published last year (Vaccines, Elsevier), disease epidemiology, vaccine schedules, medical practice, and vaccine administration differ according to local practices. Thus, a book that focuses on vaccination in Asia, where the majority of the world's population lives will serve an important purpose, and I hope it will be read widely throughout this huge geographical area. Moreover, Asian physicians and scientists should contribute even more to the body of knowledge concerning vaccination in all its aspects, from basic immunology to vaccine development and clinical trials. In that way, vaccine science will grow and benefit people in all corners of the world.
Stanley A Plotkin md
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
Emeritus Professor, Wistar Institute
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Pennsylvania, USA
21From the Desk of IAP President, 2013
Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) has always accorded a very high priority to the various issues related to pediatric immunization in the country—be it framing recommendations for practicing fraternity or issuing guidelines on the need of inclusion of a particular vaccine in the national immunization schedule or training of program managers involved with delivery of vaccines in the field. The Academy has also played a proactive role in taking on misinformation campaign against vaccines in media. We, as an academic body, have contributed a lot in the success of Global Polio Eradication Initiative in the country, and now giving technical support to the ongoing Measles and Rubella Elimination Initiative. In fact, the Academy has never shrugged off its responsibility of a serious civil society organization, committed to the wellbeing of the children of this country. The amount of significance accorded to immunization can be gauged by the fact that a separate subcommittee of the Academy, now rechristened as Advisory Committee of Vaccines and Immunization Practices (ACVIP), has been purposely constituted to deal with all the issues related to the practice of immunization in the country for last many years.
The Academy is regularly publishing its recommendations on licensed vaccines and other aspects related to the pediatric immunization in the form of a compact booklet, IAP Guidebook on Immunization. This book is one of the most sought after publications of the Academy. Not only the practicing pediatricians, but even the vaccine manufacturers and policy makers cite the recommendations contained in the book. However, the need of a comprehensive book on the contemporary Indian scenario of vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccines, and practice of vaccination was felt for quite some time. As Chair of the ACVIP, and also as President of the Academy in this Golden Jubilee year, I think this book is a perfect gift by the committee to all the stakeholders involved in the field of immunization in the country and abroad. I am pretty sure that this venture shall fulfill the great void in our understanding of vaccine sciences and would serve as a reference material to all concerned. In the last, I congratulate all the contributors from the country and abroad, and the editors who have worked very hard to bring out this precious publication.
CP Bansal md pd dap fiap
President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, 2013
Director and Consultant Pediatrician
Shabd Pratap Hospital
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
23Preface
There seems no exaggeration in William Foege's words when he uttered, “Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health”. Apart from sanitation and safe water, no other intervention seems as powerful as vaccination in providing insulation to humankind from dreadful diseases. Vaccination has been so effective in taking on some of the formidable diseases that people became complacent about vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in many developed countries. It is kind of “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” situation for many VPDs owing to effective vaccination as quite eloquently described by David Neumann. Yet, this phrase is applicable only for the children residing in less than half of the globe. For majority living in far more hostile and challenging conditions of the third world, the VPDs are still very much on the horizon. In fact, the children of the less developed countries need the umbrella of modern vaccination much more than their counterparts of developed world. The full potential of modern-day vaccines in making humankind disease-free, cannot be exploited until they are employed in the regions of the globe where their needs are felt the most.
The need of the vaccines is felt the most in India, which accounts for 20% of the world's child population, and responsible for 24% of all under-five deaths globally. India has been using vaccines since late 70s in its National Immunization Program (NIP) and currently running one of the largest mass immunization programs in the world. However, the performance of the overall program in many fields is still far from satisfactory. Coverage of many traditional vaccines remains disconcertingly low and many new vaccines that protect against today's some of the greatest threats to children, including pneumococcal disease and rotavirus have yet to be introduced into NIP. There are many barriers to achieve desired results; paucity of trained health professionals and workers in the field of vaccination is one of them. Furthermore, there is scarcity of good quality training and reliable resources in the field of vaccinology in the country.
Resistance to vaccination is almost as old as Jenner's smallpox vaccine. Misinformation campaigns against vaccine's safety may be detrimental to a well-established vaccination program of any nation. However, it may prove to be fatal to a developing country's ongoing vaccination initiatives as experienced in India in recent times. This phenomenon is growing worldwide and needs to be tackled with deft risk communication. One must not forget James Shannon's words, “The only safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used.”
The Indian Academy of Pediatrics has been at the forefront of advocacy and training pertaining to vaccination, particularly in the private sector of the country. It has been periodically issuing its recommendations for both public and private health care sectors in the form of bundled guidelines contained in a ‘Guidebook of Immunization’. However, the need of a publication containing detailed region-specific information on the epidemiology of VPDs and vaccines has been felt for quite long. This endeavor of the Academy in the form of a comprehensive textbook on vaccines must be viewed as an attempt to fill this void.
The first edition of the book is in your hands for your perusal. It covers almost all the aspects related to modern vaccinology including currently available licensed vaccines and general aspects of immunization. Sections are also devoted to vaccines in the pipeline along with newer vaccine techniques. A separate section of the book deals with issues related to vaccine policies, trials, ethics and regulatory needs.
The book shall provide in-depth information to the professionals working in the field of vaccination in India and neighboring South-Central and South-Eastern Asian countries. Special emphasis is provided to disease epidemiology and vaccine needs of India and neighboring countries. This publication should also serve as a reference material for international health agencies, government health establishments, vaccine developers, immunization program managers, and vaccine funding agencies. At the same time, the book should also be of great utility to postgraduate students, faculty members of medical institutions, and practicing pediatricians of the country.24
A galaxy of national and international experts in the field of immunization has contributed enthusiastically to this project. We are grateful to all of them for sparing their invaluable time for the book and sharing their vast expertise in the respective fields of immunization. We apologize for irksome requests and ultimatums, if any in order to meet the deadline. We do sincerely hope this edition will be considered as a useful resource in the field for all those who recognize the need and the value of vaccines in the arena of child health.
Vipin M Vashishtha
Rohit Agrawal
TU Sukumaran
Nitin K Shah
Naveen Thacker
Panna Choudhury
Vijay N Yewale
CP Bansal
A Parthasarathy
25Acknowledgments
The editors are highly thankful to the dedicated team of publishers, particularly Dr Neeraj Choudhary and Ms Madhvi Thakur for their untiring efforts that culminated in publication of this book in time. The assistance provided by Dr Ajay Kalra and Dr Chandrakant Lahariya in reviewing many manuscripts is also thankfully acknowledged.