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Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in a patient with adult-onset Still’s disease: Graft-versus-host-like skin reaction with possible asymptomatic human herpes virus reactivation during steroid tapering

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Kosuke Yamaga, Takaaki Hanafusa, Hiroaki Azukizawa, Atsushi Tanemura & Ichiro Katayama

  2. Diabetes Center, University of California, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143-540, USA

    Takaaki Hanafusa

  3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy, and Rheumatic Diseases, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Takuro Nii, Masayuki Nishide & Masashi Narazaki

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Yamaga, K., Hanafusa, T., Azukizawa, H. et al. Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in a patient with adult-onset Still’s disease: Graft-versus-host-like skin reaction with possible asymptomatic human herpes virus reactivation during steroid tapering. Eur J Dermatol 24, 101–103 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2013.2218

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