Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
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Martina Prelog

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• Review Article
  Vaccination in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Immunotherapies
  Author(s): Martina PrelogMartina Prelog
  
  Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at higher risk to suffer from morbidity due to vaccine-preventable diseases and, thus, display an important target population to receive vaccines for protection from infectious complications. There have been only a few studies focusing on the administration of vaccines in RA patients with immunotherapy. Overall, antibody response rates against influenza or pneumococcal disease appeared to be only slightly lower than expected in healthy individuals. Crucial problems in the interpretation of data from studies in RA patients vaccinated against influenza and pneumococcal disease are the impaired comparability of studies due to different study designs and type of vaccines used, different health states among RA patients, heterogeneity in treatments including concomitant therapy with conventional DMARDs and glucocorticoids in addition to bi.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9899.S6-007

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