title: [Recommendations from the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology on the diagnosis and treatment of intestinal parasitic infections in patients with autoimmune rheumatic disorders].
abstract: Intestinal parasites - helminths and protozoa - are cosmopolitan diseases which are most prevalent in tropical regions. Patients with diagnoses of autoimmune rheumatic diseases have, due to the underlying disease or its treatment, an increased risk of occurrence of severe manifestations of intestinal parasites. Although the prevalence of these parasitic infections is very high in our environment, not always is the rheumatologist attentive to the need for investigation and treatment of helminthiasis and protozooses before the use of immunomodulatory, immunosuppressive therapies, and of biological drugs that are modifiers of the course of the disease. In this document, the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology establishes general recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of intestinal parasitic infections in Brazil in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases, highlighting rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and spondyloarthritis.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alessandra Sousa
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Braz
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas-Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Universidade Severino Sombra, Vassouras, RJ, Brasil. Electronic address: carlosandrade07@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Carlos Augusto Ferreira
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: de Andrade
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
authors.forename: Licia Maria Henrique
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: da Mota
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Modelo de Decisão e Saúde, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil.
authors.forename: Caliandra Maria Bezerra Luna
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lima
mesh_terms: D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology
keywords: Autoimmune diseases; Diagnostic; Diagnóstico; Doenças autoimunes; Doenças reumáticas; Enteropatias parasitárias; Parasitarian entheropathy; Rheumatic diseases; Terapêutica; Therapeutics