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Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations
Background
App available to interpret recommendations
CDC offers PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor as a free app to quickly and easily provide patient-specific pneumococcal vaccine guidance.
It's available for download for iOS and Android mobile devices.
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There's also a web-based version that doesn't require a download.
PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor
The United States uses 2 types of pneumococcal vaccines. Each individual vaccine helps protect against different serotypes of pneumococcal bacteria.
- Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs)
- Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
The following summarizes CDC's current age- and risk-based pneumococcal vaccine recommendations.
Access the official, full text of CDC's current and historical pneumococcal vaccine recommendations.
Infants and children
Routine vaccination
CDC recommends routine pneumococcal vaccination for all children younger than 5 years old.
Administer a 4-dose PCV series (PCV15 or PCV20), 1 dose at each of the following ages:
- 2 months
- 4 months
- 6 months
- 12 through 15 months