Acute dermatomyositis associated with a staphylococcal infection
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Acute dermatomyositis associated with a staphylococcal infection.
Introduction Polymyositis and dermatomyositis may be asscciated with autoimmune phenomena and with malignancy. The initiating factors are unclear; viral infections have been proposed (Pearson and Bohan, 1977) and a few cases have been associated with bacterial and parasitic infections (Naidoo and Chan, 1975; Kegen, Kimball and Christian, 1974; Greenlee et al., 1975; Samuels and Rietschel, 1976)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.57.674.796