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Successful management of visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus infection during treatment of membranous nephropathy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus (VDVZV) infection is a rare disease with a high mortality rate (55%) in immunocompromised patients, but it is not yet widely recognized in the field of nephrology. We report a case of VDVZV contracted during immunosuppressive therapy for membr...

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Autores principales: Furuto, Yoshitaka, Kawamura, Mariko, Namikawa, Akio, Takahashi, Hiroko, Shibuya, Yuko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6632194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31307420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4193-y