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The Australian Immunisation Handbook 10th Edition 2013

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doses after age 5 years. However, all children and adults who have chronic lung<br />

disease, or certain other chronic medical conditions, whether related to preterm<br />

birth or not, should also receive additional pneumococcal vaccine doses up to and<br />

beyond the age of 5 years (see 4.13 Pneumococcal disease).<br />

Hepatitis B vaccine<br />

Low-birth-weight preterm newborn infants do not respond as well to hepatitis<br />

B-containing vaccines as full-term infants. 69,74,75 Thus, for low-birth-weight<br />

infants (

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