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Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with long-term corticosteroid use in a patient with impaired B-cell immunity

Corticosteroids are widely used to treat severe COVID-19, but in immunocompromised individuals, who are susceptible to persistent infection, long term corticosteroid use may delay viral clearance. We present a case of prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection in a man with significantly impaired B-cell immunit...

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Autores principales: Morishita, Momoko, Suzuki, Manabu, Matsunaga, Akihiro, Ishizhima, Keishi, Yamamoto, Tsukasa, Kuroda, Yudai, Kanno, Takayuki, Tsujimoto, Yoshie, Ishida, Akane, Hashimoto, Masao, Ishii, Satoru, Takasaki, Jin, Naka, Go, Iikura, Motoyasu, Izumi, Shinyu, Suzuki, Tadaki, Maeda, Ken, Ishizaka, Yukihito, Hojo, Masayuki, Sugiyama, Haruhito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8828425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35184976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2022.02.006