title: What a rheumatologist needs to know about yellow fever vaccine.
abstract: Patients with rheumatic diseases are more susceptible to infection, due to the underlying disease itself or to its treatment. The rheumatologist should prevent infections in those patients, vaccination being one preventive measure to be adopted. Yellow fever is one of such infectious diseases that can be avoided.The yellow fever vaccine is safe and effective for the general population, but, being an attenuated live virus vaccine, it should be avoided whenever possible in rheumatic patients on immunosuppressive drugs. Considering that yellow fever is endemic in a large area of Brazil, and that vaccination against that disease is indicated for those living in such area or travelling there, rheumatologists need to know that disease, as well as the indications for the yellow fever vaccine and contraindications to it. Our paper was aimed at highlighting the major aspects rheumatologists need to know about the yellow fever vaccine to decide about its indication or contraindication in specific situations.
authors.affiliation: Medical Sciences Program, Medical School, Universidade de Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Cristina Vanderley
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Licia Maria Henrique da
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.forename: Leopoldo Luiz Dos
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Santos-Neto
authors.forename: Pedro Luiz
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Tauil
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012219:Rheumatology; D015004:Yellow Fever / Q000517:prevention & control*; D022341:Yellow Fever Vaccine
chemical_list: D022341:Yellow Fever Vaccine