Abstracts tagged "epidemiologic methods and tuberculosis"

Abstract Number: 2042 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Tuberculin Conversion in Patients with Autoimmune Arthropathies Receiving Biologic Therapy
Osvaldo Luis Cerda¹, Maria de los Angeles Correa², Amelia Granel³, Ana Inés Marcos³, Claudia L. Giraldo⁴, Oscar L. Rillo⁵ and Gustavo Citera⁶, ¹Rheumatology Section, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology, Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Rheumatology, Hospital San Roque de Gonnet, La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital Gral. de Agudos Dr. E. Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Rheumatology Unit, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. E. Tornú, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁶Instituto de Rehabilitación Psicofísica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Patients receiving biologic DMARDs are at increase risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). Tuberculosis skin test (TST) is recommended to screen for TB infection prior…