Sweet syndrome and syphilis in an HIV-infected person

AIDS Reader

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 134-135

  Johnson, Laura E ^a   Armstrong, April W ^a   Dezube, Bruce J ^a   Tahan, Steven R ^a   Gold, Howard S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV AIDS; Sweet syndrome; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

ATAZANAVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; EMTRICITABINE; PENICILLIN G; TENOFOVIR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; EMERGENCY WARD; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; SKIN BIOPSY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOXYCYCLINE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PENICILLINS; SWEET'S SYNDROME; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 40849116328     PISSN: 10530894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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