SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY

Patients on anti-TNFα therapy are at increased risk for rare opportunistic infections. Here we are reporting a case of Scedosporium apiospermum infection in a patient treated with anti-TNF for 5 years. Patients on anti-TNFα need close follow-up and clinicians should be suspicious for atypical infect...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Caroline T, Raychaudhuri, Siba P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572800
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.77560
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description Patients on anti-TNFα therapy are at increased risk for rare opportunistic infections. Here we are reporting a case of Scedosporium apiospermum infection in a patient treated with anti-TNF for 5 years. Patients on anti-TNFα need close follow-up and clinicians should be suspicious for atypical infections in these immunocompromised hosts.
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spelling pubmed-30889442011-05-13 SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY Nguyen, Caroline T Raychaudhuri, Siba P Indian J Dermatol Case Report Patients on anti-TNFα therapy are at increased risk for rare opportunistic infections. Here we are reporting a case of Scedosporium apiospermum infection in a patient treated with anti-TNF for 5 years. Patients on anti-TNFα need close follow-up and clinicians should be suspicious for atypical infections in these immunocompromised hosts. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3088944/ /pubmed/21572800 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.77560 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY
title SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY
title_full SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY
title_fullStr SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY
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title_short SCEDOSPORIUM INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH ANTI-TNFα THERAPY
title_sort scedosporium infection in a patient with anti-tnfα therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572800
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.77560
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