Atopic Dermatitis Research Network (ADRN) Influenza Vaccine Study

Summary

Atopic dermatitis, also called eczema, is a disease in which the skin is dry and scaly with severe itching. People who have atopic dermatitis often have complications from skin infections; these can include eczema herpeticum after herpes simplex virus infection or eczema vaccinatum after smallpox vaccination. People with atopic dermatitis may suffer from skin infections and may therefore respond differently to vaccinations. A new flu vaccine which is injected into the skin instead of into muscle has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for vaccination of the general population including patients with atopic dermatitis. This new vaccine has been shown to work as well as the vaccine which is injected into muscle when tested in people without atopic dermatitis. The main purpose of this study is to compare how people with atopic dermatitis respond to this new flu vaccine compared to non-atopic volunteers without atopic dermatitis. The second purpose is to look at how people with atopic dermatitis respond to the new vaccine which is injected into the skin compared to the vaccine which is injected into muscle.

Timeline

Start

2012-10

Primary completion

2013-05

Completion

2013-05

Publications

• Background Leung DY, Gao PS, Grigoryev DN, Rafaels NM, Streib JE, Howell MD, Taylor PA, Boguniewicz M, Canniff J, Armstrong B, Zaccaro DJ, Schneider LC, Hata TR, Hanifin JM, Beck LA, Weinberg A, Barnes KC. Human atopic dermatitis complicated by eczema herpeticum is associated with abnormalities in IFN-gamma response. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Apr;127(4):965-73.e1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.02.010.
• Background Prymula R, Siegrist CA, Chlibek R, Zemlickova H, Vackova M, Smetana J, Lommel P, Kaliskova E, Borys D, Schuerman L. Effect of prophylactic paracetamol administration at time of vaccination on febrile reactions and antibody responses in children: two open-label, randomised controlled trials. Lancet. 2009 Oct 17;374(9698):1339-50. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61208-3.
• Background Pulendran B, Li S, Nakaya HI. Systems vaccinology. Immunity. 2010 Oct 29;33(4):516-29. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2010.10.006.
• Background Schneider L, Weinberg A, Boguniewicz M, Taylor P, Oettgen H, Heughan L, Zaccaro D, Armstrong B, Holliday A, Leung DY. Immune response to varicella vaccine in children with atopic dermatitis compared with nonatopic controls. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Dec;126(6):1306-7.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.08.010.
• Results Leung DYM, Jepson B, Beck LA, Hanifin JM, Schneider LC, Paller AS, Monti K, David G, Canniff J, Lorenzo MG, Weinberg A. A clinical trial of intradermal and intramuscular seasonal influenza vaccination in patients with atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2017 May;139(5):1575-1582.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.12.952. Epub 2017 Feb 13.
• Jalbert E, Lussier S, Johnson MJ, Jepson B, Calatroni A, David G, Leung D, Weinberg A. Lower influenza-specific cell-mediated immune responses in individuals with atopic dermatitis compared with healthy controls. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2020 Nov 1;16(11):2727-2735. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1747374. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

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