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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...
Autores principales: | Agarwal, Shweta, Das, Siddharth Kumar, Agarwal, Girdhar G., Srivastava, Ragini |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2014
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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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