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SUBMITTER: Kumar D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4583130 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar D D Unger E R ER Panicker G G Medvedev P P Wilson L L Humar A A
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20130709 9
Solid organ transplant recipients are at risk of morbidity from human papillomavirus (HPV)-related diseases. Quadrivalent HPV vaccine is recommended for posttransplant patients but there are no data on vaccine immunogenicity. We determined the immunogenicity of HPV vaccine in a cohort of young adult transplant patients. Patients were immunized with three doses of quadrivalent HPV vaccine containing viral types 6, 11, 16 and 18. Immunogenicity was determined by type-specific viral-like protein EL ...[more]