No evidence of skin infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae in patients with cutaneous T cell lymphoma

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 721-723

  Roßler M J ^a   Rappl, G ^a   Muche, M ^b   Hasselmann, D O ^a   Sterry, W ^b   Tilgen, W ^a   Reinhold, Uwe ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pneumoniae; Cutaneous lymphoma; Infection; Mycosis fungoides

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TISSUE SECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0043028332     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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