Kidney Transplantation: Posttransplant Preventive Care

Clinician Reviews. 2011 October;21(10):19-23

October 1, 2011 | Clinician Reviews

Kim Zuber, PA-C, MSPS, DFAAPA ; Jane S. Davis, CRNP, DNP ; Department Editors

Routine vaccinations are recommended—especially pneumococcal vaccine and an annual flu shot. Diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, inactivated polio, and typhoid are also acceptable vaccines for a transplant patient. Vaccines that are contraindicated after transplantation include varicella, bacillus Calmette-Guérin, smallpox, intranasal influenza, live oral typhoid, measles, mumps, rubella, oral polio, live Japanese B encephalitis, and yellow fever.^13,14

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