Infectious agents in juvenile scleroderma
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Infectious agents in juvenile scleroderma
Introduction The problem of juvenile scleroderma (JS) is determined by a variety of clinical manifestations, tendency to early generalized process with the development of peripheral and visceral lesions. In the last decade various forms JS associated with Borrelia infection, as evidenced by the discovery of a skin biopsy patients spirochete Borrelia Burgdorferii afzelii, garinii and the presenc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Rheumatology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1546-0096
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-12-s1-p306