2016 U.S. Adult Immunization Schedule

Recommendations include major updates on meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccinations.

Sponsoring Organization: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

Target Audience: U.S. primary care clinicians

Background

The ACIP has issued its 2016 recommendations for immunizing adults (age, ≥19). This year's schedule incorporates a few new vaccines and changes in the rules for administering some older ones. Immunization tables and extensive footnotes are available on the CDC website free of charge. We have reprinted the .

What's Changed?

Two meningococcal vaccines that offer protection against group B meningococcal disease have been added to the schedule. Group B meningococcal vaccine is recommended for use in high-risk patients (i.e., those exposed in a type B outbreak, those with functional or …

Reviewing Author

Abigail Zuger, MD

Disclosures

Nothing to disclose