Glomerulopathy due to chronic infection of Propionibacterium acnes in a patient with Felty's syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 177-181

  Ohtani, Hiroshi ^a   Imai, Hirokazu ^a   Komatsuda, Atsushi ^a   Hamai, Keiko ^a   Yasuda, Tadashi ^a   Miura, Akira B ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Felty's syndrome; Haematuria; Neutropenia; Opportunistic infection; Postinfectious glomerulonephritis; Propionibacterium acnes; Proteinuria; Rheumatoid arthritis; Splenomegaly; Urticarial eruption

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; FELTY SYNDROME; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

FELTY'S SYNDROME; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

EID: 0031983583     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.1.177     Document Type: Article

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