• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

Immunogenicity of a monovalent influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccine in patients with hematological malignancies

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2014 Aug;10(8):2387-94. doi: 10.4161/hv.29094.
Immunogenicity of a monovalent influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccine in patients with hematological malignancies.
Ide Y1, Imamura Y, Ohfuji S, Fukushima W, Ide S, Tsutsumi C, Koga M, Maeda K, Hirota Y.
Author information
Abstract

Patients with hematological malignancies have high risk for morbidity and mortality from influenza. This study was conducted to evaluate the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of an influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccine among such subjects. Fifty subjects were vaccinated twice during the 2009-2010 season. The antibody response was expressed in terms of mean fold rise (MFR) of geometric mean titer, seroresponse proportion (sR), and seroprotection proportion (sP). The first vaccination induced only a small response, and additional antibody was acquired after the second dose (MFR 2.3 and 3.9, sR 32% and 54%, and sP 30% and 48% after the first and the second vaccination, respectively). Rituximab treatment showed an especially inhibitory effect (MFR 1.3, sR 9% and sP 0%). When analyzed using logistic regression models, only rituximab was found to have an independent effect; the adjusted odds ratio for sR was 0.09 (P = 0.05). Influenza vaccination of patients with hematological malignancies resulted in adepuate response, and the second vaccination induced additional antibody. It is therefore recommended to vaccinate this group twice.
KEYWORDS:

hematological malignancy; immunogenicity; influenza vaccine; reactogenicity; rituximab

PMID:
25424946
[PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25424946
 
Back
Top Bottom