Vaccine Ingredients
In addition to the live, attenuated or inactive virus, pathogen or toxoid, the DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel) vaccine contains the following ingredients:
- 2-phenoxyethanol
- aluminum phosphate
- ammonium sulfate
- calf bovine serum
- casamino acids
- CMRL 1969 medium supplemented with calf serum
- dimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin
- formaldehyde
- glutaraldehyde
- human diploid cell cultures (MRC-5)
- Medium 199 without calf serum
- modified Mueller and Miller medium
- modified Mueller-Miller casamino acid medium without beef heart infusion
- modified Mueller's growth medium
- neomycin
- polymyxin B sulfate
- polysorbate 80
- Stainer-Scholte medium
- sucrose
Source: CDC