Abstracts tagged "biologic response modifiers and fungal infections"

Abstract Number: 942 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Update in the Management of Biologic Response Modifiers and Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Following Coccidioidomycosis
Usman Ajaz¹, Neil M. Ampel², Varun Bhalla³, Jeffrey R. Lisse⁴ and Dominick Sudano⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ²Department of Infectious Disease, Southern AZ VA Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, ³University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁴Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, ⁵Rheumatology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Background/Purpose: In the Southwestern United States, Coccidioidomycosis (cocci) or Valley fever is an endemic fungal infection. It typically presents as a self-limited pulmonary illness. Patients…