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Timing of vaccinations

Typhoid Oral

• Contraindicated in pregnancy, immunocompromised
• Antibiotics - allow 48 hours before and after vaccination.
• Chloraquine and mefloquine should be started 3 days after completion of  typhoid (WHO)
• NHMRC recommends giving Sabin (OPV) and typhoid oral 2 weeks apart (debatable)
• Immunoglobulin does not interfere
• Malarone - allow 10 day interval after completing oral typhoid

Yellow Fever:

• Contraindicated in those with true egg allergy and immunocompromised ** (scroll to Adverse Reactions)
• Live vaccines MMR and Varicella should be given concurrently or at least 4 weeks apart
• Oral cholera, Sabin (OPV), Typhoid oral and BCG do not inhibit immune response
• Hepatitis, typhoid, DTP and meningococcal vaccines do not interact
• Rabies, Japanese Encephalitis and Plague vaccines - interaction not known

Allergies

• Egg - yellow fever, MMR, influenza
• Neomycin - MMR