Abstracts tagged "childhood lupus"

Abstract Number: 052 • 2020 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcus Colonization in Patients with Childhood Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (cSLE) Compared to Healthy Controls
Fatima Barbar-Smiley¹, Stacy Ardoin ², Chack-Yung Yu ³, Veronica Mruk ⁴, Cagri Yildirim-Toruner ², Vidya Sivaraman ⁵, Joanne Drew ¹, alexa meara ⁶, Asuncion Mejias ² and Octavio Ramilo ⁷, ¹Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, ³Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, ⁴The Ohio State University, Columbus, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Bexley, ⁶The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, COLUMBUS, ⁷Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive
Background/Purpose: Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) may lead to severe life-threatening infections in both the general and immunocompromised population. Patients diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)…