International guidelines

Rest of the world

Adult immunization schedule: recommendations for ages 19 years or older, United States, 2025[59]

Published by:CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Last published:2024

Clinical management of diphtheria[44]

Published by:World Health Organization

Last published:2024

Child and adolescent immunization schedule: recommendations for ages 18 years or younger, United States, 2025[60]

Published by:CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Last published:2024

Infection control in healthcare personnel: epidemiology and control of selected infections transmitted among healthcare personnel and patients​[58]

Published by:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

Last published:2024

Manual for the surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. Chapter 1: diphtheria[1]

Published by:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last published:2022

WHO laboratory manual for the diagnosis of diphtheria and other related infections[41]

Published by:World Health Organization

Last published:2021

Use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccines: updated recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - United States, 2019[32]

Published by:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last published:2020

ACOG Committee Opinion No. 718: Update on immunization and pregnancy: tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccination[37]

Published by:American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Last published:2017 (reaffirmed 2022)

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