Ideally, the vaccination should be given 4 weeks before travel. A combined hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccine is also available in Australia. It is given as a course of 3 doses of vaccine: one vaccination is given immediately, the second is given one month later, and the third is given 5 months after that.
Although Haemophilus influenzae is not the cause of influenza, it is still responsible for a number of different clinical diseases in humans. And since it is able to adapt to the penicillin binding protein, it has acquired a level of resistance to the different kinds of penicillin antibiotics. Haemophilus influenzae is a non-motile, Gram-negative, fastidious, non-spore forming, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium.
1 Influenza (Fl u)Publication Date: September 25 th 2015 What is influenza (a lso called flu)? Influenza is an acute contagious respiratory illness caused by infectionwith an influenza virus. Influenza can occur throughout the year butinfluenza activity usually peaks in winter.There are three types in all with influenza A and influenza B causingthe majority of infections. A third type, influenza C, is rarely reportedas a cause of human illness.Influenza viruses infect the nose, throat and lungs.