Plain Talk About Child Immunizations, 5th Edition

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Plain Talk About Child Immunizations

Dictionary of terms

AAFP:	American Academy of Family Physicians
AAP:	American Academy of Pediatrics
ACIP:	Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Federal vaccine advisory committee to CDC/NIP)
CDC:	U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
CIS:	Certificate of Immunization Status form
DTaP:	Diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine
FDA:	U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Flu:	Influenza
Hep A:	Hepatitis A
Hep B:	Hepatitis B
Hib:	Haemophilus influenzae type b
IPV:	Inactivated polio vaccine
MMR:	Measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
NIP:	National Immunization Program (a program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
OPV:	Oral polio vaccine
PCV:	Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
SIDS:	Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Td:	Tetanus/diphtheria vaccine
VAERS:	Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
Var:	Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine
VIS:	Vaccine Information Statement

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