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Shingles following infliximab infusion
  1. D C Baumgart,
  2. A U Dignass
  1. Universitätsklinikum Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Medizinische Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, D-13344 Berlin, Germany
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr D C Baumgart, Charité-Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, D-13344 Berlin, Germany;
    daniel.baumgart{at}charite.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.61.7.661

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