Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Jan 2013)

Low Seroconversion after One Dose of AS03-Adjuvanted H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

  • Mariangela R Resende,
  • Shahid Husain,
  • Jonathan Gubbay,
  • Lianne Singer,
  • Edward Cole,
  • Eberhard L Renner,
  • Coleman Rotstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/256756
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 1
pp. e7 – e10

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Immunocompromised individuals are more susceptible to complications produced by influenza infection. As a result, solid-organ transplant (SOT) recipients were targeted as a priority group to receive AS03-adjuvanted H1N1 influenza vaccine during 2009.