A 3-month-old infant correctly vaccinated for his age, who after two weeks of rhinorrhea, sneezing and coughing, is admitted for intensification of coughing spells, with cyanosis at the end of them, ending with deep inspiration or inspiratory rooster, requiring stimulation, aspiration of secretions and oxygen to recover from them. According to your diagnostic suspicion and with respect to the vaccine for this disease, all are true EXCEPT:
We are being asked about the pertussis vaccine. Option 1 is correct, it is the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. Option 4 is also correct, since they are inactivated microorganisms. Now we are left with the doubt between 2 and 3... Option 3 is the one that "is not true among all those proposed to us": immunity lasts about 10 years after the last dose.
The vaccine in Spain is administered in combination with diphtheria and tetanus.
Adults who will be in contact with infants under 6 months of age should be vaccinated.
Both natural and vaccinal immunity remains for life.
Vaccination is prepared from killed microorganisms.
We are being asked about the pertussis vaccine. Option 1 is correct, it is the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine.
Option 3 is the one that "is not true among all those proposed to us": immunity lasts about 10 years after the last dose.
Option 4 is also correct, since they are inactivated microorganisms.