The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians

The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians known as The Purple Book (TPB) is a tried and true, concise user-friendly compendium of pretty much everything you need to know to engage in vaccine practice. It includes up-to-date immunization schedules, detailed recommendations for children and adults with specific health conditions, storage and handling requirement, guidance for billing and coding, as well as a review of the basic immunology of how vaccines work, supported by elegant illustrations and useful tables. TPB contains detailed information about every vaccine approved for use in the United States and the diseases they are designed to prevent. There are a few new chapters in this edition of which one is about vaccines to prevent COVID-19.