Fatal fulminant legionnaires' disease in a patient with severe erythodermic psoriasis treated with infliximab after long-term steroid therapy [14]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 585-586

  Eisendle, K ^a   Fritsch, P ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CYCLOSPORIN A; DELTACORTENE; ETRETIN; IMIPENEM; INFLIXIMAB; LEVOFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHRODERMA; FATALITY; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERADRENOCORTICISM; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MYOPATHY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PREDNISOLONE; PSORIASIS;

EID: 17444408886     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06431.x     Document Type: Letter

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