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.

Winthrop, Kevin L; Yamashita, S; Beekmann, S E; Polgreen, P M; Infectious Diseases Society of America Emerging Infections Network · Clin Infect Dis · 2008

cross_sectional · Level IV

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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.

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