Immunisation

Acceptability at Recruitment

ACCEPTABLE

Acceptability at CT / Work-Up

QUALIFIED

Individual at Risk

Recipient

Guidance

Inform transplant centre if vaccinated within the three months prior to harvest. Establish type of vaccination given and whether live-attenuated, killed or subunit.

Live vaccines

Guidance

Live-attenuated vaccines may theoretically cause disease in the immunocompromised recipient. For this reason, an 8 week deferral period applies. The deferral period may be shortened to four weeks by TC discretion is 1) The inoculation site has healed, and 2) The live vaccine was any vaccine other than smallpox.

Examples of live vaccines

Viral

Measles vaccine, mumps vaccine, rubella vaccine, chicken pox vaccine, oral polio vaccine (Sabin), yellow fever vaccine, and nasal-spray flu vaccine (including the seasonal flu nasal spray and the 2009 H1N1 flu nasal spray). Rabies vaccines are now available in two different attenuated forms, one for use in humans, and one for animal usage.

Bacterial

BCG vaccine, typhoid vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccine

A 7 day deferral period before donation applies for Hepatitis B vaccination.

Coronavirus vaccination

For Coronavirus. please see Coronavirus vaccination

For further information, see JPAC guidelines: https://www.transfusionguidelines.org/dsg/bm/appendices/appendix-3-table-of-immunizations

Version

Version 1, Edition 1

Date of Last Update

15th June 2012