[How well are patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases protected against measles?]

CONCLUSION: These data show that at least 2.9% of the patients did not have sufficient protection against measles. Interestingly, the majority of patients born after 1970 had protective antibodies despite the lack of vaccination against measles. The efforts in primary and also in the specialist medical care should be urgently strengthened in order to be able to guarantee an adequate infection prophylaxis in particularly endangered patients.
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Source: Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie - September 14, 2020 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Kiltz U, Celik A, Tsiami S, Baraliakos X, Andreica I, Kiefer D, Bühring B, Braun J Tags: Z Rheumatol Source Type: research