Cutaneous toxoplasmosis after bone marrow transplantation with molecular confirmation

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 781-784

  Amir, Gail ^a   Salant, Harold ^b   Resnick, Igor B ^a   Karplus, Rebekah ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOM; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 53349168549     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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