Optimizing virus protection in lung transplant recipients: Don’t drop the ball
Date:
08/15/2021
Citation:
Meyer KC, Avery RK. Optimizing virus protection in lung transplant recipients: Don't drop the ball. Am J Transplant. 2021 Aug;21(8):2633-2634. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16609. Epub 2021 May 1. PMID: 33866667; PMCID: PMC8250728.
Abstract
Meyer and Avery comment on the implications of a study by Hostetler et al. (page 2864), in which screening of a large group of lung transplant candidates revealed that some lacked humoral immunity to measles, mumps, and varicella, especially younger patients and those with cystic fibrosis.