Clinical infection with Strongyloides sterocoralis following etanercept use for rheumatoid arthritis [3]

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1336-1337

  Boatright, M David ^a   Wang, Benjamin W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN; ETANERCEPT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IVERMECTIN; PREDNISONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; VINCA ALKALOID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TROPICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FECES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 17244373105     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20882     Document Type: Letter

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