Lung Infections in Systemic Rheumatic Disease: Focus on Opportunistic Infections
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Lung Infections in Systemic Rheumatic Disease: Focus on Opportunistic Infections
Systemic rheumatic diseases have significant morbidity and mortality, due in large part to concurrent infections. The lung has been reported among the most frequent sites of infection in patients with rheumatic disease, who are susceptible to developing pneumonia sustained both by common pathogens and by opportunistic microorganisms. Patients with rheumatic disease show a peculiar vulnerability...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms18020293