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. 2015 Jul;100(7):e285-8.
doi: 10.3324/haematol.2014.116772. Epub 2015 Mar 27.

Efficacy of single versus boost vaccination against influenza virus in patients with multiple myeloma

Michael Hahn  1 , Paul Schnitzler  2 , Brunhilde Schweiger  3 , Christina Kunz  4 , Anthony D Ho  1 , Hartmut Goldschmidt  1 , Michael Schmitt  5
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Efficacy of single versus boost vaccination against influenza virus in patients with multiple myeloma

Michael Hahn et al. Haematologica. 2015 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: infectious diseases; influenza; multiple myeloma; vaccination; virus.

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Figure 1.
(A) Antibody titers against different influenza virus strains after sequential vaccination in myeloma patients. Box plots depict the increase of antibody titers against the different influenza strains. Differences of HI titers between two time points were analyzed using the signed-rank Wilcoxon test. Statistically significant P-values are shown in the plots. (B) Immune response to double vaccination against seasonal influenza. Bar charts depict seroprotection (upper panel) and seroconversion (lower panel) rates before, after the first and second vaccinations. Differences were analyzed by pairwise McNemar test. P-values are shown.
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