Intants - FDA Grants Licensure To Expand Indication For Sanofi Pasteur's Menactra

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NOT good news as it will surely be added to the already toxic schedule

for 9 months - 23 months

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FDA Grants Licensure To Expand Indication For Sanofi Pasteur's

Menactra

4/25/2011 8:16 AM ET

(RTTNews) - Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the Sanofi-Aventis

Group (SNY:

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), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has

granted licensure to expand the indication for its meningococcal

conjugate vaccine, Menactra, to include a two-dose schedule for infants

and children 9 months through 23 months of age.

The FDA approval of Menactra vaccine for infants was based on results of

one Phase II and three Phase III modified single-blind, controlled,

multicenter trials in which more than 3,300 infants from the United

States received Menactra vaccine using a two-dose schedule, starting as

young as 9 months of age.

Results from the above studies showed that 2 doses of Menactra vaccine

given 3 months apart elicit a robust immune response against the

serogroups included in the vaccine.

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Here's the package insert

https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_id=11177 & image_type=product_pdf

" Menactra®, Meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y and W-135) Polysaccharide

Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine, is a sterile, intramuscularly

administered vaccine that contains Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A, C,

Y and W-135 capsular polysaccharide antigens individually conjugated to

diphtheria toxoid protein. N meningitidis A, C, Y and W-135 strains are

cultured on Mueller Hinton agar (2) and grown in Scherp (3) media.

The polysaccharides are extracted from the N meningitidis cells and

purified by centrifugation, detergent precipitation, alcohol

precipitation, solvent extraction and diafiltration. To prepare the

polysaccharides for conjugation, they are depolymerized, derivatized, and

purified by diafiltration. Corynebacterium diphtheriae cultures are grown

in a modified Mueller and medium (4) and detoxified with

formaldehyde. The diphtheria toxoid protein is purified by ammonium

sulfate fractionation and diafiltration. The derivatized polysaccharides

are covalently linked to diphtheria toxoid and purified by serial

diafiltration. The four meningococcal components, present as individual

serogroup-specific glycoconjugates, compose the final formulated vaccine.

No preservative or adjuvant is added during manufacture. Each 0.5 mL dose

may contain residual amounts of formaldehyde of less than 2.66 mcg

(0.000532%), by calculation. Potency of Menactra vaccine is determined by

quantifying the amount of each polysaccharide antigen that is conjugated

to diphtheria toxoid protein and the amount of unconjugated

polysaccharide present.

Menactra vaccine is manufactured as a sterile, clear to slightly turbid

liquid. Each 0.5 mL dose of vaccine is formulated in sodium phosphate

buffered isotonic sodium chloride solution to contain 4 mcg each of

meningococcal A, C, Y and W-135 polysaccharides conjugated to

approximately 48 mcg of diphtheria toxoid protein carrier. "

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Here is a good article by Jayne Donegan

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/meningitis5.html

Meningitis C Vaccine—A Look at the Disease & The New Jab------- Dr

Jayne L M Donegan, MB, BS, DRCOG, DCH, MRCGP General Medical Practitioner

(Practicing in South London)The Informed Parent

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

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