tetanus vaccine
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vaccines used to prevent tetanus
Key facts
- Target
- Tetanus
- Vaccine type
- Toxoid
- Medlineplus
- a682198
- License data
- United States</span>"}]]}'>US DailyMed : Tetanus
- Routes of administration
- Injection
- Atc code
- J07AM01 ( WHO )
- Legal status
- United States</span>"}]]}'>US : ℞-only European Union</span>"}]]}'>EU : Rx-only
- Cas number
- 93384-51-1
- Chemspider
- none
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
19,808 papers- Tetanus vaccine.Releve epidemiologique hebdomadaire · 2006
- A Novel High-Potency Tetanus Vaccine.mBio · 2020
- Tetanus vaccine: present status.Advances in biotechnological processes · 1990
- Genetically detoxified tetanus toxin as a vaccine and conjugate carrier protein.Vaccine · 2022
- Tetanus vaccine during pregnancy: data of a tertiary hospital in Turkey.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2020
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- vaccine
- Part of
- DPT vaccine
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1939-00-00
- vaccine for
- tetanus
- Commons category
- Tetanus vaccination
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Tetanus vaccine, also known as tetanus toxoid (TT), is a toxoid vaccine used to prevent tetanus. During childhood, five doses are recommended, with a sixth given during adolescence.
After three doses, almost everyone is initially immune, but additional doses every ten years are recommended to maintain immunity. A booster shot should be given within 48 hours of an injury to people whose immunization is out of date.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tetanus vaccine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.