Abstracts tagged "autoantibodies and bacterial infections"

Abstract Number: 1838 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Antibodies Against Bacterial Products Curli/DNA Are Found in Lupus Patients and Are Associated with Disease Flares
Ryan Pachucki¹, Sarah Tursi², Chelsea Corradetti¹, Lynne Kohler³, Stefania Gallucci², Cagla Tukel² and Roberto Caricchio¹, ¹Medicine Rheumatology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ²Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, ³Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Bacterial infections are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in SLE, a known trigger of flares and they are often difficult to distinguish…