Should patients under long-term anti-TNF therapies be followed for tuberculosis contamination?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1271-1272

  Reenaers, C ^a   Belaiche, J ^a   Louis, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; ROMANIA; SKIN INDURATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AZATHIOPRINE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CORTICOSTERONE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77955744737     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21162     Document Type: Letter

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