[Infectious Disease Prevention Group: Update on vaccines, 2022]

Abstract

The update of the preventive activities for this year 2022 in the field of infectious diseases is of special relevance due to the importance that prevention has gained and more specifically, vaccination as a tool to control the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus declared on March 11, 2020. The pandemic has focused much of the prevention efforts on its containment, but the importance of maintaining high vaccination coverage of the rest of the recommended vaccines to maintain good control of vaccine-preventable diseases and avoid complications in particularly vulnerable patients should not be forgotten. In this year's review we present a practical document with the aim of providing tools to primary care professionals who work with adults, to make the indication of each vaccine whether it is systematically recommended or if it is because the patient belongs to some risk group due to their condition or underlying pathology. In this way, throughout the document, we will comment on the most innovative aspects of systematic vaccination (flu, pneumococcus, meningococcal vaccines and vaccines against the human papillomavirus [HPV]), the new vaccines (pandemic vaccines against COVID-19, vaccines against herpes zoster of subunits, vaccines against monkeypox) and the recommended vaccines according to risk condition (pregnancy and lactation, travelers, patients with immunosuppression or underlying pathology).

Keywords: Actividades preventivas; Atención primaria; Enfermedades infecciosas; Infectious diseases; Preventive activities; Primary care; Vaccination of the adult; Vacunación del adulto.

Figura 1

Serotipos incluidos en las diferentes vacunas antineumocócicas.

Figura 2

Esquema de vacunación frente al neumococo en función de la edad y de la patología de base. Fuente: elaboración propia.