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Rheumatology Advance Access published online on June 30, 2009
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep181
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Comment on: Screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis prior to anti-TNF therapy—an audit of impact of the British Thoracic Society guidelines on rheumatology practice in an area of low Mycobacterium tuberculosis prevalence

Batsi Chikura1, Veena Sadananda1 and Muniba Usman-Saeed1

1Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool, UK

Correspondence to: Batsi Chikura, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP, UK. E-mail: docbatsi@aol.com

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SIR, We read the letter by Pradeep et al. [1] with interest. Screening for latent or active tuberculosis (TB) is important prior to initiating TNF-{alpha} blockers (anti-TNF-{alpha}). In the UK, there is a lack of standard practice in the manner in which . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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