Technically Speaking: ACIP Updates Recommendations on the Use of MenACWY and MenB Vaccines
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice’s (ACIP’s) updated guidance for meningococcal serogroups A, C, W, and Y vaccine (MenACWY) and meningococcal serogroup B vaccine (MenB) was recently published in the MMWR Recommendations and Reports. This publication, Meningococcal Vaccination: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020, replaces and consolidates all previously published ACIP meningococcal vaccine recommendations. The descriptive terminology “shared clinical decision-making” has been added for the two-dose MenB vaccination series in people between 16–23 years of age. The guidance also contains new recommendations for off-label administration of booster doses of MenB for persons at increased risk for serogroup B meningococcal disease, including microbiologists and people age ≥ 10 years with persistent complement deficiencies, complement inhibitor use, or anatomic or functional asplenia. Booster doses are recommended one year following completion of a MenB primary series followed by MenB booster doses every 2–3 years thereafter. A one-time booster dose also is recommended for persons at increased risk during an outbreak.
A summary (from Box 1, found on page 3 of the publication) of the ACIP recommendations for MenACWY and MenB vaccines is reprinted below.
Contributed by: Deborah Wexler, MD
Categories: Vaccine Update October 2020, Technically Speaking
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