Experience of Vaccination of a Patient with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) with a 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, prior to the Appointment of Therapy with Tocilizumab, an Anti-IL-6-Receptor Monoclonal Antibody

• Main Authors: Daria D. Vankova (Author), Ekaterina I. Alekseeva (Author), Margarita А. Soloshenko (Author), Tatiana М. Dvoriakovskaia (Author), Ksenia B. Isaeva (Author), Rina V. Denisova (Author), Anna V. Mamutova (Author), Mariya G. Rudnitskaya (Author), Nikolay A. Mayansky (Author), Natal'ya Е. Tkachenko (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: "Paediatrician" Publishers LLC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background. Infections are the main cause of death for patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. In adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), mortality caused by respiratory infections is 2-5 times higher than in the population. One of the frequent infectious complications in the course of t...