Anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy does not diminish the immune response to influenza vaccine in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy does not diminish the immune response to influenza vaccine in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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DOI:
10.1007/s10165-007-0632-5
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Miyasaka, Nobuyuki
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作者:
Kubota, Tetsuo;Nii, Tokiko;Miyasaka, Nobuyuki
The recent widespread employing of potent biologic agents targeting tumor necrosis factor (TNF) for the therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) raises the question as to whether patients treated in this way respond normally to the influenza vaccine. To the best of our knowledge, there are only a few articles in the English language literature discussing this issue, 1–3 and no data have been reported from Japan. We therefore studied the humoral immune response to influenza vaccination in Japanese patients with RA who were treated/not treated with anti-TNF biologics in comparison with healthy controls.