752400login-checkClinical trial finds live vaccinations safe for liver, kidney transplant recipients |
by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Live vaccinations provided to children who previously received liver or kidney transplants were found to be safe and prompted an immune response to guard against several life-threatening conditions, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study, based on data from 18 organ transplant centers, was co-authored by Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, interim director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children’s, and Amy Feldman, MD, MSCS, medical director of the Liver Transplant Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Read the full article in Medical Xpress.
752400login-checkClinical trial finds live vaccinations safe for liver, kidney transplant recipients |