Immunosuppressive drugs impairs antibody response of the polysaccharide and conjugated pneumococcal vaccines in patients with Crohn's disease

Bjørn Kantsø, Sofie Ingdam Halkjær, Ole Østergaard Thomsen, Erika Belard, Ida Benedikte Gottschalck, Charlotte Sværke Jørgensen, Karen A Krogfelt, Hans-Christian Slotved, Helene Ingels, Andreas Munk Petersen

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patients with Crohn's disease (CD) have a higher risk of infectious diseases including pneumococcal infections, and the risk increases with immunotherapy. The primary endpoint of this study was to investigate the specific antibody response to two pneumococcal vaccines in CD patients with and without immunosuppressive treatment four weeks post vaccination.

METHODS: In a randomized trial of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) and the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV13), a group of CD patients treated with immunosuppressive drugs (IS) alone or in combination with TNF-α antagonists were compared to a group of CD patients not treated with any of these drugs (untreated). Specific pneumococcal antibody concentrations were measured against 12 serotypes common to the two vaccines before and 4 week after vaccination.

RESULTS: PCV13 induced a significantly higher antibody response for one serotype (23F) in IS treated patients and for two serotypes (9V and 23F) in untreated patients compared to CD patients vaccinated with PPV23. Untreated PPV23 recipients had higher responses for serotypes 9V and 18C compared to IS+TNF-α treated PPV23 recipients. Comparison between treatment groups showed that immunosuppressive treatment impaired the antibody response to both vaccines and that TNF-a treatment further conveyed additional impairment of the response.

CONCLUSION: PCV13 induces higher antibody response for some serotypes compared to PPV23. In addition, CD patients treated with immunosuppressive drugs alone or in combination with TNF-α antagonists had an impaired antibody response to both PPV23 and PCV13 compared to patients not receiving any of these treatments. The study has been registered in the European Clinical Trials Database (EudraCT, record no 2012-002867-86) and ClinicalTrials.gov (record no. NCT01947010).

Original languageEnglish
JournalVaccine
Volume33
Issue number41
Pages (from-to)5464-9
Number of pages6
ISSN0264-410X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2015

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