Frequency of Hospitalized Infections Is Reduced in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Received Biological and Targeted Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs after 2010
Table 2
Classification of infection and its frequency of infection and whole group.
Type of infection
(% of infection/% of total)
Respiratory infection:
24 (64.9%/8.72%)
Bacterial pneumonia
10 (26.3%/3.64%)
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
4 (10.5%/1.45%)
Tuberculosis
3 (7.9%/1.1%)
Nontuberculous mycobacteria
3 (7.9%/1.1%)
Acute exacerbation of chronic lower respiratory diseases