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CD4+ T-cell count to predict the response to new H1N1 vaccination in pediatric patients with cancer

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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Clin Oncol. 2011 May 20;29(15_suppl):9087.
[h=1]CD4+ T-cell count to predict the response to new H1N1 vaccination in pediatric patients with cancer.[/h] Mavinkurve-Groothuis AM[SUP]1[/SUP], van der Flier M[SUP]1[/SUP], Stelma F[SUP]1[/SUP], van Leer-Buter C[SUP]1[/SUP], Preijers F[SUP]1[/SUP], Hoogerbrugge P[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] 9087 Background: The efficacy of vaccination in (pediatric) cancer patients is still a topic of debate. We aimed to study the immunologic determinants of influenza vaccination response in pediatric cancer patients.
[h=4]METHODS:[/h] We measured the vaccination response to the new swine-origin influenza A H1N1 in relation to lymphocyte subpopulations in 33 pediatric cancer patients, being treated with chemotherapy or within 6 months after the end of chemotherapy. All patients were vaccinated twice with an intramuscular injection with inactivated split-virion preparation of the A/California/07/2009(H1N1)v like strain (X-179A), which contained 7.5μg of hemagglutinin per dose of 0.5 ml. A protective response was defined as achieving a HI antibody titer ≥ 1:40 following vaccination.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] From the 33 included patients, 19 (58%) had a protective immune response. We showed a significant relation between response on vaccination and levels of all of the different lymphocyte subpopulations (p<0.001 for the CD4+ T-cells and p=0.001 for total T-cells, CD8+ T-cells and B-cells). Patients with an absolute CD4+ T-cell count less than 200/mm[SUP]3[/SUP] did not have a protective vaccination response to new H1N1.
[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/h] Absolute CD4+ T-cell count predicts the response to influenza vaccination in pediatric cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. This finding has important implications for the establishment of a response on vaccination in pediatric cancer patients during treatment with chemotherapy.


PMID: 28021508
[PubMed - in process]
 
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