Infections in Sarcoidosis

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  • Hui-Ping Li
  • Raghwendra Kumar Jha
چکیده

Sarcoidosis is autoimmune disease known from century whose exact etiology is still under debate. Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease and numbers of infections have been reported in sarcoidosis patients. Some of the infections are more commonly reported while other are rarely reported in sarcoidosis. In this paper, we try to review opportunistic infections in sarcoidosis if there are any particular conditions which are more prone to the certain type of infections in sarcoidosis. The paper and research published online in the medical journal about infections in sarcoidosis were reviewed as early as possible. The risk for opportunistic infection in sarcoidosis is low and types of infections cause in sarcoidosis may depend upon epidemiology, therapeutic status, sarcoidosis stage, sarcoidosis site and CD+4 count.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017