Hib Vaccine

Hib Vaccine
Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine is a conjugate vaccine for the prevention of infectious disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria. The Haemophilus influenzae (Hib) vaccine have reduced childhood meningitis. A Hib bacterium is a Gram-negative, coccobacillar, facultative anaerobic pathogenic bacterium.

Treatment
Hib causes bacteremia, pneumonia, epiglottitis and acute bacterial meningitis. It causes cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and infectious arthritis. It causes epiglottitis, Pneumonia- Fever, Cough, Chills, Sweating, Chest pain, Bacteremia- Diarrhea, and Vomiting and Meningitis. Treatment of Hib infection includes Cortisone and antibiotics like Cefotaxime, Clarithromycin and fluoroquinolones.

Statistics
Hib was found in a substantial proportion of Australian Aboriginal children with invasive disease in 1985–1993. It also represented 2.4% of H. influenzae isolates from the nasopharynx of children hospitalized with acute lower respiratory  infections. Recent study from the Northern Territory in Australia did not find evidence of increasing H. influenzae, in the Australian Aboriginal children.