Abstract
Patients with immunocompromising conditions are at higher risk of vaccine-preventable infections. Further, those receiving immunosuppressive disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) can have variable responses to vaccines depending on which vaccine and which DMARD they are receiving.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 695-703 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- Influenza vaccine should be given yearly to all patients on DMARDs
- with modification to either the timing of DMARD or vaccine administration for patients receiving methotrexate or rituximab
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)