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Evaluation of 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccination in Adults with Lymphoid Malignancies receiving Chemotherapy or Following Autologous Stem Cell T

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Leuk Lymphoma. 2012 Dec 14. [Epub ahead of print]
Evaluation of 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccination in Adults with Lymphoid Malignancies receiving Chemotherapy or Following Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation.
Villa D, Gubbay J, Sutherland DR, Laister R, McGeer A, Cooper C, Fortuno ES, Xu W, Shi L, Kukreti V, Crump M, Kuruvilla J.
Abstract

ABSTRACT This is a randomized trial evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of one or two doses of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination in adults with lymphoid malignancies. Adults with a lymphoid malignancy receiving active systemic therapy, or within a year after autologous stem cell transplantation received one dose of AS03-adjuvanted A/California/7/2009(H1N1) vaccine, and randomized 21 days later to a second dose or no further vaccination. The primary outcomes were seroprotection and seroconversion rates by hemagglutination inhibition 21 and 42 days after initial vaccination. Twenty-two patients received one dose, and 20 patients received a second dose. Seroconversion rates at day 21 were 30% (one dose) and 5% (two doses), and subsequently 30% for both groups at day 42. Seroprotection rates at day 21 were 40% (one dose) and 15% (two doses), and subsequently 35% (one dose) and 40% (two doses) at day 42. Differences in serologic endpoints were not statistically significant between both study arms at day 42. Patients with low levels of B-cells (CD19-positive) had low seroconversion rates on days 21 (OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.59-0.93, p=0.043) and 42 (OR 0.12, 95% CI 0.01-1.07, p=0.058). Only 3 of the 14 patients who received rituximab achieved seroprotective titers by day 42. Patients with lymphoid malignancies did not achieve rates of seroconversion or seroprotection seen in healthy subjects despite a second dose and the use of an adjuvant. Notwithstanding suboptimal immunogenicity, seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccination should continue to be recommended.

PMID:
23240909
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23240909
 
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