Study: Live vaccines safe, effective in pediatric transplant recipients

“In today’s world, measles, mumps and varicella are circulating in the community, and nonimmune transplant recipients are at risk for community acquisition of these potentially fatal infections,” Amy G. Feldman, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, medical director of the pediatric liver transplant center at Children’s Hospital Colorado and president-elect of the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, told Healio.