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M Petri - Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 1998 - Elsevier It is no surprise that patients with SLE continue to be at risk for infection throughout their disease
course. Although the Swedish experience has suggested that disease flares occur early in the
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A Schattner, B Rager-Zisman - Reviews of infectious diseases, 1990 - jstor.org Viral infections in humans commonly result in the transient appearance of a variety of autoantibodies
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A Schattner - Vaccine, 2005 - Elsevier The most frequently reported autoimmune manifestations for the various vaccinations, were:
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