Incidence and Risk Factors for Herpes Zoster Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1483-1490

  Gupta, Gauree ^a   Lautenbach, Ebbing ^a   Lewis, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845310903     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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