Pneumococcal Vaccination of Crohn Patients

Summary

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at increased risk of infections. This increased susceptibility to infections is due to the disease itself, but also be-cause many patients with autoimmune conditions are treated with immuno-suppressive drugs, such as azathioprine and or TNF-a inhibitors. Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality and one of the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in adults. Infection with pneumococcus can be prevented with vaccination. Two pneumococcal vaccine are used in Denmark, the 23 valent polysaccharide-based vaccine (23PPV) and the 13 valent of conjugate pneumococcal vaccines (PCV13). In this study the investigators wish to study the effect of pneumococcal vaccination with either PPV23 or PCV13 in IBD patients treated with either TNF-a inhibitors, azathioprine or untreated.

Timeline

Start

2013-07

Primary completion

2014-08

Completion

2014-08

Publications

• Kantso B, Halkjaer SI, Ostergaard Thomsen O, Belard E, Gottschalck IB, Jorgensen CS, Krogfelt KA, Slotved HC, Ingels H, Petersen AM. Persistence of antibodies to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine compared to polysaccharide vaccine in patients with Crohn's disease - one year follow up. Infect Dis (Lond). 2019 Sep;51(9):651-658. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2019.1638519. Epub 2019 Jul 10.
• Kantso B, Halkjaer SI, Thomsen OO, Belard E, Gottschalck IB, Jorgensen CS, Krogfelt KA, Slotved HC, Ingels H, Petersen AM. Immunosuppressive drugs impairs antibody response of the polysaccharide and conjugated pneumococcal vaccines in patients with Crohn's disease. Vaccine. 2015 Oct 5;33(41):5464-5469. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.08.011. Epub 2015 Aug 12.

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