spondylarthritis and tuberculosis Archives

Abstract Number: 2486 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Clinical Performance Of 4 Methods For Detecting Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTbI) In Patients With Active Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis Taking TNFα Blockers
Carina M F Gomes¹, Maria Teresa Terreri², Maria Isabel Pinto³, Karen Oseki³, Fernanda Spina⁴ and Marcelo M. Pinheiro⁵, ¹Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo / UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Rheumatology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo Unifesp/EPM, Brazil, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Brazilian Registry of Spondyloarthritis, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: About 5% of the Brazilian population has some chronic inflammatory arthropathy (CIA), including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PA) and juvenile…

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