Open AccessOpsonic and Antibody Responses to Pneumococcal Polysaccharide in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Golimumab Plus Methotrexate
Author(s) -
Kiyoshi Migita,
Yukihiro Akeda,
Manabu Akazawa,
Shigeto Tohma,
Fuminori Hirano,
Haruko Ideguchi,
Ryutaro Matsumura,
Eiichi Suematsu,
Tomoya Miyamura,
Shunsuke Mori,
Tsuguya Fukui,
Yuichi Izumi,
Nozomi Iwanaga,
Yuka Jiuchi,
Hideko Kozuru,
Hiroshi Tsutani,
Kouichirou Saisyo,
Takao Yamanaka,
Shiro Ohshima,
Naoya Mori,
Akinori Matsumori,
Kiyoki Kitagawa,
Koichiro Takahi,
Tetsuo Ozawa,
Norikazu Hamada,
Kenichiro Nakajima,
Hirokazu Nagai,
N Tamura,
Yasuo Suenaga,
Masaharu Kawabata,
Toshihiro Matsui,
Hiroshi Furukawa,
Kenji Kawakami,
Kazunori Oishi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000002184
Subject(s) - medicine , golimumab , rheumatoid arthritis , opsonin , methotrexate , immunology , antibody , arthritis , microbiology and biotechnology , etanercept , biology
Vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae is recommended for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients receiving immunosuppressive treatments. The objective of this study was to evaluate the humoral response to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination (PPSV23) in RA patients receiving methotrexate (MTX) alone or in combination with a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor, golimumab (GOM). PPSV23 was given to 114 RA patients, who were classified into three groups: RA control (n = 35), MTX alone (n = 55), and GOM + MTX (n = 24). Before and 4 to 6 weeks after vaccination, concentrations of antibodies against pneumococcal serotypes 6B and 23F were measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and antibody functionality was determined using a multiplexed opsonophagocytic killing assay, reported as the opsonization index (OI). The IgG concentrations and OIs were both significantly increased in all treatment groups in response to PPSV23 vaccination. In the GOM + MTX group, the IgG responses were lower than those in the MTX alone or control groups, whereas the OI responses were similar to those in the other 2 groups. Furthermore, discrepancies between the IgG and OI responses were found in GOM + MTX group. No severe adverse effect was observed in any treatment groups. OI responses indicate that antibody functionality rather than antibody quantity is important. The similarity of these measurements between all 3 groups suggests that RA patients receiving MTX + GOM still benefit from receiving the PPSV23 vaccination, even though they produce less IgG in response to it. These results can help clinicians to better schedule and evaluate pneumococcal vaccination for RA patients.