Abstracts tagged "Wegener’s granulomatosis and microbiome"

Abstract Number: 1760 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Fungal Composition of the Nasal Mucosa in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
Rennie L. Rhee¹, Antoine G. Sreih¹, Catherine E. Najem², Peter C. Grayson³, Chunyu Zhao⁴, Kyle Bittinger⁴, Ronald Collman⁵ and Peter A. Merkel⁶, ¹Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: While prior studies have demonstrated that granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA; Wegener’s) is associated with an altered composition of nasal bacteria and that use of…