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Is the tuberculin skin test an accurate method of detecting tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

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boxed-textPonce de León D et al. (2005) Attenuated response to purified protein derivative in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: study in a population with a high prevalence of tuberculosis. Ann Rheum Dis 64: 1360–1361

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    Tom WJ Huizinga & Sandra M Arend

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Huizinga, T., Arend, S. Is the tuberculin skin test an accurate method of detecting tuberculosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2, 188–189 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0161

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