Steroids Decrease Prevalence of Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Implications on Anti-TNF Therapies

Tuberculin skin test has been used as an indicator of latent tuberculosis in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) before administration of biologicals. Effect of Disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and steroids on the result of tuberculin skin test (TST) may have important implications...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Shweta, Das, Siddharth Kumar, Agarwal, Girdhar G., Srivastava, Ragini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/430134

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/430134

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