Abstracts tagged "Juvenile arthritis and microbiome"

Abstract Number: 2350 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Gastrointestinal Microbiota in New-Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Sriharsha Grevich^1,2, Kyle Hager³, Mitchell Brittnacher³, Hillary Hayden³, Sarah Ringold^1,2, David Suskind^1,2, Samuel Miller³ and Anne Stevens^1,2, ¹University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle, WA, ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ³University of Washington, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Oral and gut microbes have been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, and juvenile enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA). Pro-inflammatory microbes in the bacteroides…