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Take Your Best Shot Challenge

  1. A 4 month old comes to your office for routine care needing immunizations. He is being adopted by a local family domestically and the first set of vaccines were given in Utah. The immunization record provided confirms the first dose of rotavirus vaccine but you cannot confirm which vaccine was given. The rotavirus vaccine product that you are providing in your office is Rotarix (RV1). How many doses of vaccine would you give the child?



  2. You plan to obtain influenza vaccine for yourself through the children's hospital occupational health department. The occupational health nurse has both inactivated and live attenuated vaccine available. You tell her that aside from providing care on the general pediatric ward, you also provide care for infants in the level 2 NICU. Which vaccine is appropriate for you?



  3. A 6 month old is traveling to India with his parents who will be doing missionary work for the next 3 months. He has been immunized appropriately for age to this point. What vaccines that are routinely given to healthy children are appropriate for this patient now?



  4. You are immunizing a child at age 4 years and the mother specifically is concerned that varicella vaccine has more often been followed by the development of shingles than after natural wild type varicella . True or false?



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