Saturday, March 28, 2015

pearls on vaccines in MS patients

1.  Standard guidelines indicate use of a killed and not inactivated vaccine v. influenzae is safe, but it should not be given during a relapse.
 
2.  Response to vaccines is high in standard therapies, but two new oral vaccines have a slightly lower response:  teriflunomide in the 14 mg dose is effective in only 76 %  of one particular strain (v.about 90 %)
 
3.  Fingolimod was effective in only 54 % with weakness v. certain strains such as California strain.  However the incidence of influenza was comparable in patients and controls in this 2015 study published in Neurology.

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