Pneumococcal vaccination in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia

✍ Scribed by Feldman, Sandor ;Malone, W. ;Wilbur, Richard ;Schiffman, Gerald

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 345 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.2950130205

✦ Synopsis

Sixty-three children with ALL in CCR and and two were vaccinated at the time of diagtreated according to a standard therapy pro-nosis. Response to t h e vaccine was suboptitocol were immunized with the l4valent mal and by the 6-month follow-up there were pneumococcal vaccine. Forty-six children only two serotypes for which more than half were vaccinated 1, 3, or 6 months following the patients tested had 2 300 ng antibodies initial induction remission; 15 were vacci-Nlml.

, nated 4-6 weeks following successful completion of 30 months of antileukemia therapy;