Immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccine in heart transplant recipients

Authors
Blumberg, EA Brozena, SC Stutman, P Wood, D Phan, HM Musher, DM
Citation
Ea. Blumberg et al., Immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccine in heart transplant recipients, CLIN INF D, 32(2), 2001, pp. 307-310
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Immunology
Journal title
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
10584838 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
307 - 310
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(20010115)32:2<307:IOPVIH>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
To assess the immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccine in recipients of heart transplants, we immunized 35 long-term transplantation survivors with pneu mococcal vaccine and measured the pre- and postvaccination IgG antibody tit ers to 5 representative vaccine capsular polysaccharides. Responses of hear t transplant recipients to pneumococcal vaccine antigens were generally sup pressed.