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Infectious complications of rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis during targeted and biological therapies: a viewpoint in 2020
  1. Olivier Lortholary1,2,
  2. Mario Fernandez-Ruiz3,4,
  3. John W Baddley5,
  4. Oriol Manuel6,
  5. Xavier Mariette7,8,
  6. Kevin L Winthrop9
  1. 1Paris University, Necker Pasteur Center for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, IHU Imagine, Necker Enfants malades University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
  2. 2Institut Pasteur, National Reference Center for Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals, Molecular Mycology Unit, CNRS UMR 2000, Paris, France
  3. 3Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario "12 de Octubre", Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Hospital "12 de Octubre" (imas12), School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
  4. 4Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD16/0016), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  5. 5University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  6. 6Infectious Diseases Service and Transplantation Center, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  7. 7Rheumatology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpitaux universitaires Paris-Sud – Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
  8. 8Université Paris-Sud, Center for Immunology of Viral Infections and Auto-immune Diseases (IMVA), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) UMR 1184, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
  9. 9Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
  1. Correspondence to Professor Olivier Lortholary, Paris University, 75015 Paris, France; olivier.lortholary{at}aphp.fr

Abstract

Biological therapies have improved the outcomes of several major inflammatory, autoimmune and also neoplastic disorders. Those directed towards cytokines or other soluble mediators, cell-surface molecules or receptors or various components of intracellular signalling pathways may be associated with the occurrence of infections whose diversity depends on the particular immune target. In this context and following a keynote lecture given by one of us at the European League Against Rheumatism meeting on June 2018, a multidisciplinary group of experts deeply involved in the use of targeted and biological therapies in rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis decided to summarise their recent vision of the immunological basis and epidemiology of infections occurring during targeted and biological therapies, and provide useful indications for their management and prevention.

  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • psoriatic arthritis
  • infections
  • vaccination
  • DMARDs (biologic)

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217092

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    • Handling editor Josef S Smolen

    • Contributors OL designed the review, wrote introduction and conclusion, and wrote the final version. All coauthors wrote one paragraph each.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.