BOOSTRIX-IPV is a vaccine used as a booster to prevent four diseases, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and poliomyelitis (polio) in adults and children aged 4 years and older who have been previously vaccinated against these diseases. The vaccine works by causing the body to produce its own protection (antibodies) against these diseases.
- Active Ingredients: non-infectious substances from tetanus, diphtheria bacteria, purified proteins of pertussis bacteria and inactivated poliovirus.
- Inactive Ingredients: aluminium hydroxide hydrate and aluminium phosphate as adjuvants, sodium chloride (salt), Medium 199 (which contains phenylalanine), water for injections, and traces of formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, neomycin sulfate and polymyxin sulfate.
