Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman

Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin. It is a result of hypersensitivity to dietary gluten. Diagnosis of DH can be challenging in a low prevalence, resource-limited population. We present the case of an African woman who presented with clinical features of DH...

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Autores principales: Machona, Musonda Sharon, Gupta, Mehak, Mudenda, Victor, Ngalamika, Owen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364361
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.119.14012
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author Machona, Musonda Sharon
Gupta, Mehak
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description Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin. It is a result of hypersensitivity to dietary gluten. Diagnosis of DH can be challenging in a low prevalence, resource-limited population. We present the case of an African woman who presented with clinical features of DH.
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spelling pubmed-61952472018-10-24 Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman Machona, Musonda Sharon Gupta, Mehak Mudenda, Victor Ngalamika, Owen Pan Afr Med J Case Report Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) is an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin. It is a result of hypersensitivity to dietary gluten. Diagnosis of DH can be challenging in a low prevalence, resource-limited population. We present the case of an African woman who presented with clinical features of DH. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6195247/ /pubmed/30364361 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.119.14012 Text en © Musonda Sharon Machona et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
title Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
title_full Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
title_fullStr Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
title_full_unstemmed Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
title_short Dermatitis herpetiformis in an African woman
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364361
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.119.14012
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