Abstracts tagged "immunology and inflammation"

Abstract Number: 1970 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
T_H17 Inflammatory Responses Occur in a Subset of Patients with Erythema Migrans or Lyme Arthritis, but Are Not Predominant Responses in Joints
Klemen Strle¹, Elise E. Drouin¹ and Allen C. Steere², ¹Medicine, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Medicine, Center for Immunolgy and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose Lyme disease usually begins with an expanding skin lesion, erythema migrans (EM), whereas arthritis is a late disease manifestation. The infection usually resolves with…