Generalized Vaccinia in Patients with Pemphigus Foliaceus
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Generalized vaccinia in patients with pemphigus foliaceus.
ALTHOUGH there are numerous reports of individual cases, only a few papers deal with general aspects of the clinical picture of generalized vaccinia (Tedder, I936; Clark, Seiler, Joe, Gammie, Tait and Jack, I944; Fries, Borne and Barnes, I948). During two outbreaks of generalized vaccinia occurring, after two mass vaccinations, in a hospital for patients with pemphigus foliaceus, some clinical ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.39.448.86