Maintenance of antibody response to diphtheria/tetanus vaccine in patients aged 2-5 years with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis receiving subcutaneous abatacept

• Main Authors: Hermine I. Brunner (Author), Nikolay Tzaribachev (Author), Gabriel Vega Cornejo (Author), Rik Joos (Author), Elisabeth Gervais (Author), Rolando Cimaz (Author), Inmaculada Calvo Penadés (Author), Rubén Cuttica (Author), Thomas Lutz (Author), Pierre Quartier (Author), Yash Gandhi (Author), Marleen Nys (Author), Robert Wong (Author), Alberto Martini (Author), Daniel J. Lovell (Author), Nicolino Ruperto (Author), for the Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group and the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Patients with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA), receiving disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs with immunosuppressive effects, may be at increased risk of vaccine-preventable infections. This substudy assessed protective antibody responses to diphtheria...