Case 30-2007: A newborn girl with skin lesions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1327-

  Avram, Mathew M ^a   Gobel, Verena ^a   Sepehr, Alireza ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS CULTURE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LANGERHANS CELL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INFECTION; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE; VIRUS CULTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CHICKENPOX; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHICKENPOX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS;

EID: 34748890442     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc079025     Document Type: Article

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