Pneumococcal Vaccination in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine
• •2. Current signs or symptoms of severe, progressive or uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematologic, endocrine (including thyroid), pulmonary, cardiac, infectious, neurologic or cerebral disease. Included are ongoing chronic active conditions such as chronic active hepatitis.
• •3. Patients who in the judgment of the investigator are unwilling or unable to comply with all the protocol-related assessments and procedures.
• •4. History of alcohol or other drug abuse within one year, or any conditions associated with poor compliance.
• •5. Patients in whom venipunctures are not feasible due to poor tolerability or lack of easy access.
• •6. Healthy volunteers or patients with a history of prior pneumococcal vaccination
• •7. Any condition which, in the opinion of the Investigator, places the patient at unacceptable risk if he/she were to participate in the study.