Recommendations for vaccination of cancer pts receiving chemotherapy, pts with Hodgkin's disease, and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients are listed in Table 79-3. In solid organ transplant recipients, the usual vaccines and boosters should be given before immunosuppression. Pts with continued immunosuppression should have pneumococcal vaccination repeated every 5 years and should not receive live vaccines.
For a more detailed discussion, see Finberg RW: Infections in Patients with Cancer, Chap. 104, p. 484; and Finberg RW, Fingeroth J: Infections in Transplant Recipients, Chap. 169, p. 919, in HPIM-19. |
Section 7. Infectious Diseases