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Y Muzellec

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PubMed1997

Listeriosis after fludarabine treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The authors report a case of Listeria monocytogenes septicemia in a patient with advanced CLL after a single course of fludarabine, without any other immunosuppressive therapy e.g. corticosteroids. The immunosuppressive action of fludarabine in patients who are already severely immunosuppressed must be considered from a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view. Listeriosis and other opportunistic infections, like pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, have been reported during and after treatment with purine analogues. Prophylaxis with cotrimoxazole must therefore be discussed in patients with CLL treated with fludarabine.

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PubMed1993

[Meningoencephalitis after vaccination against yellow fever with the 17 D strain: 2 cases].

The authors report two cases of meningoencephalitis consecutive to immunization with the 17 D yellow fever virus in adults. This complication is exceptional; the rare cases previously reported usually occurred in children. The meningoencephalitis had no particular clinical features; it was more severe in our second case but nevertheless followed a favourable course, as usually described in the literature. The pathogenesis of these central nervous system reactions is unclear. In our two cases the vaccine seems to have acted synergistically with another neurotropic virus (adenovirus in the first case, unknown virus in the second) which was either pre-existing and latent or occurring de novo.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Antibodies to histones in rheumatoid arthritis.

Using a newly developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, antibodies to histones (H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) were found in 32 out of 40 rheumatoid arthritis patients with antinuclear antibodies at a titer greater than or equal to 100 as measured by indirect immunofluorescence. The anti-H2A reactivity was higher in patients with secondary Sjögren's syndrome than in those without, but the highest antihistone reactivity and the most heterogeneous patterns were observed in patients who were receiving D-penicillamine.

Adult↗