Pneumocystis jirovecipneumonia in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis as a complication of treatment with infliximab, anti-tumor necrosis factor α neutralizing antibody
✍ Scribed by Shunsuke Mori; Fumiya Imamura; Chikage Kiyofuji; Kanako Ito; Yukinori Koga; Izumi Honda; Mineharu Sugimoto
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1439-7595
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