Flu Vaccine Not Effective in Lung Transplant Patients.

2000 DEC 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Humoral immune response data indicate that the influenza vaccine is not effective in lung transplant patients.

As flu season envelops the northern hemisphere, these patients will need to find other ways of avoiding infection.

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio measured antibody levels in 43 lung transplant patients and 21 controls before and after immunization with the 1999 flu vaccine. That year, the vaccine contained the A/Sydney, A/Beijing, and B/Yamanashi strains.

P.J. Mazzone, MD, and colleagues reported their findings at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, …