Norwegian scabies associated with herpes simplex infection in a renal transplant patient

Transplantation

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 943-944

  Abdo, Anselmo ^a   Kouri, Vivian ^b   Burgos, Dayle ^a   Urquiza, Aleida ^a   Limonta, Daniel ^b   Alfonso, Carlos ^a   Mendez, Daymiris ^a   Delgado, Ernesto ^a   Valdivia, Julio ^a   Collera, Simeon ^a   Verdecia, Niurka ^a  

^a Medical Surgical Research Center   (Cuba)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; LETTER; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PAPULAR RASH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SKIN CULTURE; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PARASITOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; SCABIES;

EID: 65549165192     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31819b9a71     Document Type: Letter

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