Infections and systemic vasculitis

Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-57

  Mandell, Brian F ^a   Calabrese, Leonard H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PREDNISONE; VIDARABINE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AORTITIS; APHERESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; VASCULITIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0031974382     PISSN: 10408711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002281-199801000-00008     Document Type: Review

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