Infection and lupus: Which causes which?

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Doaty, Sarah ^a   Agrawal, Harsh ^b   Bauer, Erin ^a   Furst, Daniel E ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Infection; Microbiome; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; BELIMUMAB; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; RITUXIMAB;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN PARVOVIRUS B19; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MICROBIOME; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICROFLORA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MICROBIOTA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 85007590646     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-016-0561-4     Document Type: Article

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