AAP Red Book® 2024 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 33rd Edition

Red Book®  provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases. It includes evidence-based guidance to practicing clinicians on pediatric infections and vaccinations based on the recommendations of the committee as well as the combined expertise of the CDC, the FDA, and hundreds of physician contributors. A good reference for:

• Pediatricians
• Pediatric infectious disease specialists
• Family and emergency medicine physicians
• Public and school health professionals
• Medical residents and students

The new 33rd edition continues this tradition of distinction with the latest clinical guidance on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.

Find the latest information about vaccines, emerging novel diseases, diagnostic modalities, and treatment recommendations from the combined expertise of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and hundreds of physician contributors.

Red Book guidance spans far beyond the pediatric practice to include family medicine, emergency medicine, public health, school health, and other medical specialties.

New in Red Book 2024:

• All chapters were assessed for relevance in the dynamic environment that is the practice of pediatric medicine today, and every chapter has been modified since the last edition.
• Significantly revised Discussing Vaccines With Patients and Parents chapter
• Two new chapters on COVID-19 and Mpox have been added
• Greatly expanded tables, figures and algorithms enable quick access to essential information
• The System-Based Treatment Table has been reordered so that the grouped recommendations by body system are more easily and quickly accessed.
• Standardized approaches to disease prevention through immunizations, antimicrobial prophylaxis, and infection-control practices have been updated throughout the Red Book.
• Reference to evidence-based policy recommendations have been updated throughout the Red Book.
• Appropriate chapters throughout the Red Book have been updated to be consistent with 2024 AAP and CDC vaccine recommendations, CDC recommendations for immunization of health care personnel, and drug recommendations from 2024 Nelson’s Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy.
• The Breastfeeding and Human Milk chapter was updated to align with information in the 2022 AAP policy statement on breastfeeding.
• The listing of Codes for Commonly Administered Pediatric Vaccines, Toxoids, and Immune Globulins has been expanded.