Can lupus patients safely get the shingles vaccine? new trial aims to find out

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Provision of informed consent prior to any study specific procedures 2. Female or male ≥18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent 3. Meet the 2019 EULAR/ACR Classification Criteria for SLE 4. Female subjects must use 1 effective method of avoiding pregnancy, from the time they sign consent until end of the study period unless the subject is surgically sterile (e.g., bilateral oophorectomy or complete hysterectomy), has a sterile male partner, is at least 1 year postmenopausal, or practices sustained abstinence consistent with the subject's customary lifestyle. Postmenopausal is defined as at least 1 year since last menses and the subject has an elevated follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) level greater than the threshold laboratory value of post-menopausal women at screening. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Prior administration of the Herpes Zoster subunit vaccine (Shingrix) or the Varicella-Zoster virus vaccine live (Zostavax) 2. Clinical HZ infection within 12 months prior to screening or during screening 3. Hybrid SLEDAI \>12 at screening visit 4. Presence of a mild, moderate, or severe flare per the rSFI at time of screenin 5. Increase in clinical SLEDAI parameters at time of enrollment relative to screening visit 6. Any vaccine, including the final/booster dose of any SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, within six weeks enrollment 7. Receipt of rituximab or cyclophosphamide within nine months of enrollment 8. Participation in an interventional clinical trial of SLE or other therapeutics within six months of enrollment 9. Moderate to severe infectious febrile illness or use of systemic antibiotics (antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, or antiparasitic agent) within 4 weeks of enrollment 10. Are pregnant, nursing, or planning a pregnancy while enrolled in the study 11. Known primary or secondary immunodeficiency (malignancy, HIV, common variable immune deficiency) or medications used during cancer chemotherapy