Netherton syndrome: Report of two Taiwanese siblings with staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome and mutation of SPINK5

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 159-165

  Chao, S C ^a   Richard, G ^b   Lee, Julia Yu Yun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoepithelial Kazal type related inhibitor; Netherton syndrome; Premature degradation of corneodesmosomes; SPINK5 mutation; Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome; Taiwanese

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL ICHTHYOSIFORM ERYTHRODERMA; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NETHERTON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SPINK5 GENE; STRATUM CORNEUM; TAIWAN; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; ADULT; ATOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; LABORATORY TEST; LAMELLAR ICHTHYOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MUTATION; PATHOGENESIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN EXAMINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIFORM ERYTHRODERMA, CONGENITAL; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME;

DESMOGLEIN 1; EXFOLIATIN;

EID: 13244283292     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06337.x     Document Type: Article

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