Delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction to ethambutol and isoniazid
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Delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction to ethambutol and isoniazid.
A 24-year-old woman had recently started antitubercular therapy with isoniazid, ethambutol and rifampicin. This therapy was discontinued 2 weeks later due to an itchy, desquamative, erythematous, papular rash, with painful crusts and excoriations, spreading from the face and hands to the rest of the body. 5 days after withdrawal of all drugs, widespread desquamation and exfoliation with predile...
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عنوان ژورنال: Contact Dermatitis
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0105-1873
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0536.2002.460610.x