Routine vaccinations for HIV-1 infected adults
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1. In general, HIV-1 infected individuals should not receive any live viral or bacterial vaccines (eg. Measles/Mumps/Rubella, monovalent Rubella, BCG, yellow fever, oral Typhoid Ty21a, varicella-zoster, oral Polio, vaccinia). There have been instances of lethal infections with live vaccinia vaccines following vaccination of HIV-infected persons.(3) This principle however applies particularly to HIV-infected individuals with evidence of severe immunosuppression. Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine for example is recommended for those without evidence of severe immunosuppression, and a recent update on recommendations for the use of yellow fever vaccine in asymptomatic HIV-infected individuals has recently been published.(4-6)
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