ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2935 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Rennie L. Rhee1, Antoine G. Sreih1, Catherine E. Najem1, Peter C. Grayson2, Chunyu Zhao3, Kyle Bittinger3, Ronald G. Collman4 and Peter A. Merkel5, 1Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, 3Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 4Medicine & Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 5Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Prior studies have suggested a potential link between nasal microbes, in particular Staphylococcus aureus, and granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA; Wegener’s) but these studies relied…