Reactivation of severe, acute pulmonary tuberculosis during treatment with pegylated interferon-alpha and ribavirin for chronic HCV hepatitis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-208

  Sabbatani, Sergio ^a   Manfredi, Roberto ^a   Marinacci, Ginevra ^a   Pavoni, Michele ^a   Cristoni, Lorenzo ^b   Chiodo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CD4 ANTIGEN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PEGINTERFERON; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIBAVIRIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RIBAVIRIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33644594518     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540500263268     Document Type: Article

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