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. 2020 Jan 24;16(8):1905–1910. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1712937

Table 1.

Immunization schedule in China in 2016.

  Recommended age at administration
Vaccine Birth 1 m 2 m 3 m 4 m 5 m 6 m 8 m 9 m 18 m 2 y 3 y 4 y 5 y 6 y
Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) vaccines
HepB 1 2         3                
BCG 1                            
IPV     1                        
OPV       1 2               3    
DTaP       1 2 3       4          
DT                             1
MR               1              
MMR                   1          
JE-live or
JE-inactivated
              1     2        
              1, 2     3       4
MPSV-A             1   2            
MPSV-AC                       1     2
HepA-live or HepA-inactivated                   1          
                  1 2        
Non-EPI vaccinesa
Hib     1 2                      
PCV   1 2 3                      
Influenza             1 2              
Rotavirus     1                        
PPSV                     1        
Varicella                   1          

BCG: bacillus Calmette–Guérin, DT: diphtheria-tetanus, DTaP: diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, HepA: hepatitis A (2BS cell strains), HepB: hepatitis B (recombinant Hansenula polymorpha), IPV: inactivated polio vaccine (Types I, II, and III), JE: Japanese encephalitis (SA14-14-2 strains), MMR: measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (measles: Shanghai-191, mumps: vS79 Strains, rubella: BRD Ⅱ), MPSV: meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (Group A & C), MR: measles-rubella vaccine (measles: Shanghai-191, rubella: BRD Ⅱ), OPV: oral polio vaccine (Types I; and III), PCV: pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (13 valent), PPSV: pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (23 valent), rotavirus (Lanzhou lamb rotavirus or Rotarix).

aNon-EPI vaccines are administered according to manufacturer’s instructions, without official guidance from the China Experts Advisory Committee on Immunization Program.