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Vaccination Against Pneumococcal in Naïve Abatacept Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Comparison of Humoral Response to Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine and Polysaccharide Pneumococcal Vaccine in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients Treated With Abatacept

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02547493
Acronym
VACINA
Enrollment
80
Registered
2015-09-11
Start date
2016-03-03
Completion date
2021-01-18
Last updated
2022-01-03

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Conditions

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Keywords

Vaccination against Pneumococcal, Naïve Abatacept patients

Brief summary

Is pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (which induces a T-dependent humoral response) more efficient than pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (which induces a T-independent humoral response) in RA patients treated with abatacept, biotherapy targeting T-cells? The investigator propose to conduct a prospective, multicenter (11 centers), randomized, open-label study. The patients are going to be randomized in 2 groups: patients of the first group will be vaccinated with the polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccine (Pneumo23®/Pneumovax®) whereas patients of the second group will be vaccinated with conjugate pneumococcal vaccine (Prevenar13®).

Detailed description

The study population will be all the RA patients between 18 and 85 years with instauration of a treatment by sub-cutaneous abatacept in association with methotrexate who agreed to participate to the study. At the time of their inclusion, patients will be randomized for receiving either pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV) or pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). The primary endpoint will be evaluated at one month after vaccination. The total of follow-up will be of 12 months. For the patients of the group PCV, the prime-boost strategy will be applied in order to be in accordance with the current French recommendation and a revaccination at 2 months after the initial vaccine will be realized with PPSV.

Interventions

Vaccination with PPSV on first day. NB : PPSV vaccine Pneumo23 has been replaced in September 2017 by the equivalent vaccine Pneumovax because of the stop of commercialization of Pneumo23 in France by the pharmaceutical company.

Patients are vaccinated with Prevenar13 on the first day, and with Pneumo23/Pneumovax two months later.

DRUGAbatacept

Abatacept started on frst day

Sponsors

Bristol-Myers Squibb
CollaboratorINDUSTRY
University Hospital, Montpellier
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* RA according to American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against rheumatism (EULAR) 2010 criteria * Disease Activity Score (DAS) 28 ≥ 3.2 * Initiation of a treatment by sub-cutaneous abatacept in combination with methotrexate (MTX), whatever treatment they were receiving before (apart from rituximab (RTX) in the last year) * Patient has signed study consent form

Exclusion criteria

* age \< 18 or \> 85 year * dementia * patients subjects to legal protection measures * Corticosteroids ≥ 10mg/d the day of inclusion * Patient who had a pneumococcal vaccination in the previous 3 years * Last pneumococcal vaccination \< 3 year * rituximab in the last year * History of anaphylactic response to a vaccination * Contraindications to abatacept or methotrexate * Pregnancy or pregnancy wish * Breast feeding * Patient who currently abuse drugs or alcohol * Subject who have received any live vaccines within 3 months of the anticipated first dose of study medication. * Subject who have receive any vaccine within 1 month of the anticipated first dose of the study medication and for all the duration of the study * Patient with contraindication to intramuscular injections * Subject with respiratory insufficiency * Subject at risk for Tuberculosis. * Blood transfusion within the 3 months previous to the study and for all the duration of the study. * Concomitant biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) * Within 4 weeks of receiving treatment with any investigational drug. * Patient positive for hepatitis B surface antigen * Patient who are positive for hepatitis C antibody if the presence of hepatitis C virus was also shown with polymerase chain reaction or recombinant immunoblot assay.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Humoral response comparison after vaccination (number of patient with at least a two-fold increase of the antibody titer for at least 3 of the 5 serotypes of interest : 1,3 14, 7F, 19A)1 month after vaccinationTo compare the rate of responders, at one month after vaccination, between patients vaccinated with PCV and patient vaccinated with PPSV.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Side Effect frequency (number of side effect at each patient's visit for both groups)1, 2,6 ans 12 months after inclusionComparison of the frequency of side effects between the 2 groups at 1, 2, 6 and 12 months
Prime boost strategy efficacity evaluation (number of responder in the PCV group)6 months after inclusionCalculation of the rate of responders, in the PCV group, at 4 month after re-vaccination by a dose of PPSV
Long term immune response after vaccination6 and 12 months after vaccinationComparison between the 2 groups of the rate of responders at 6 and 12 months after vaccination
Comparison between the 2 groups of the opsonophagocytosis activity of the antibodies produced1, 2, 6 and 12 months after vaccinationComparison between the 2 groups of the opsonophagocytic titers (OPA) at 1, 2, 6 and 12 months after vaccination
Pneumococcal vaccination predictive factor identification12 month after last patient inclusionAnalysis of the collected date to search for predictive factors of immune response after pneumococcal vaccination by comparison of the rates of responders within each group, according to age, gender, RA activity, MTX dosage, corticosteroid, dosage, therapeutical history

Countries

France, Monaco

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026