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Mycobacterial and other serious infections in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor and other newly approved biologic therapies: case finding through the Emerging Infections Network
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Mycobacterial and other serious infections in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor and other newly approved biologic therapies: case finding through the Emerging Infections Network

Kevin L Winthrop, S Yamashita, S E Beekmann, P M Polgreen and Infectious Diseases Society of America Emerging Infections Network
Clinical infectious diseases, Vol.46(11), pp.1738-1740
06/01/2008
DOI: 10.1086/587989
PMID: 18419421
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Abstract

We present the results of a nationwide survey of infectious disease consultants to identify mycobacterial and other serious infections in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor compounds and other novel targeted therapies. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, histoplasmosis, and invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection were all reported more frequently than was tuberculosis disease in this context.
Opportunistic Infections - etiology Mycobacterium Infections - etiology Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - adverse effects Biological Therapy - adverse effects Humans Data Collection Opportunistic Infections - prevention & control Information Services Opportunistic Infections - chemically induced

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