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A 54-year-old Japanese man noticed painful swelling and redness of his left leg. He was admitted for treatment of cellulitis, which was accompanied with increased anti-streptolysin O and anti-streptokinase titers in his clinical course. After Piperacillin/Tazobactam administration, the skin lesion resolved. However, the patient then developed arthritis, palpable purpura, and intermittent abdomi...

The early (six hours) reaction to tuberculin skin testing was studied in 33 Indonesian hospital workers with frequent occupational exposure to M tuberculosis and compared with responses maximal at the usual time (48 hours) in factory workers, from the same locality but with only occasional occupational exposure, to determine the nature of the early reaction. The early reaction had the same gene...

To investigate whether cell wall mannan from Candida metapsilosis induces vasculitis similar to that in Kawasaki syndrome and anaphylactoid shock in mice, we examined the pathogenic effects of C. metapsilosis cell wall extracts. Our results show that intraperitoneal injection of cell wall extracts induced severe coronary arteritis, and intravenous injection induced acute anaphylactoid shock sim...