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Needle size for vaccination procedures in children and adolescents.
CONCLUSIONS: Using 25 mm needles (either 23 G or 25 G) for intramuscular vaccination procedures in the anterolateral thigh of infants using the WHO injection technique probably reduces the occurrence of local reactions while achieving a comparable immune response to 25 G 16 mm needles. These findings are applicable to healthy infants aged two to six months receiving combination DTwP vaccines with a reactogenic whole-cell pertussis antigen component. These vaccines are predominantly used in low- and middle-income countries. The applicability of the findings to vaccines with acellular pertussis components and other vaccines ...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Beirne PV, Hennessy S, Cadogan SL, Shiely F, Fitzgerald T, MacLeod F Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research
