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The effect of anti-tumour necrosis factor α treatment on the antibody response to influenza vaccination
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- Published on: 13 April 2016
- Published on: 13 April 2016Anti-TNF-alpha therapy, statins and response to influenza vaccination: a word of caution.Show More
Dear Editor,
We read the interesting paper of Dr. Gelinck and associates on the effect of anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF-á) therapy on the antibody response to influenza vaccination [1]. Although there was a modest impairment of the antibody response to the vaccination, the proportion of patients achieving a protective titer was not significantly diminished. However, we have oncerns on generalizing these res...
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