Abstracts tagged "laboratory tests and tuberculosis"

Abstract Number: 206 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Real World IGRA Testing in Rheumatology Practice
Paul DeMarco^1,2, Megan Bishop³, Ashling Smith⁴, Herbert S. B. Baraf^1,5, Andrew Gregory DeMarco⁶, Temitope Ademola⁷, Deborah Contreras⁸, Adalisa Enriquez RMA¹, Lisa Klein¹, Kayra Perez¹, Sandra Ventura¹, Janice Whyte-Whitworth¹, Vince Calhoun¹, Theresa Bass Goldman¹ and Alan K Matsumoto^1,9, ¹The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research, Wheaton, MD, ²Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ³Clinical Trials, The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research, Wheaton, MD, ⁴2730 University Blvd West, Suite 306, The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research, Wheaton, MD, ⁵Department of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, ⁶Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cellular Biology, Washington, DC, ⁷The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research, Washington, DC, ⁸2730 University Boulevard West, Suite 306, The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research, Wheaton, MD, ⁹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) screening is routine for clinical trial protocols, & authorization for immunomodulators use by health insurances. Real world data is needed to…
Abstract Number: 2034 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases Do Not Cause Positive Autoantibody Testing, Results from a Tertiary Pulmonary Care Center
Barbara Goldstein¹, Jeffery J. Swigris², Shannon Kasperbauer¹, Pearlanne Zelarney¹ and JoAnn Zell¹, ¹Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, ²National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Background/Purpose: National Jewish Health (NJH) is a tertiary referral center for pulmonary and immunologic disease. The infectious disease division at NJH specializes in the care…

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