Behet's syndrome and micro-organisms

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-406

  Hatemi, Gulen ^a   Yazici, Hasan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Behet's syndrome; Epidemiology; Infection; Management; Micro organisms

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; COLCHICINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLIXIMAB; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACNE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE EDEMA; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HEREDITY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MOUTH FLORA; ORBITAL MYOSITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA VASCULITIS; RETINITIS; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SIBLING; SKIN FLORA; T LYMPHOCYTE; TONSILLECTOMY; ULCER; UVEITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULITIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRAL EYE INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BEHCET SYNDROME; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81455142388     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2011.05.002     Document Type: Review

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