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Drug eruption study yields surprising results

Published in Drug Week, September 6th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in France have shed new light on the inflammatory drug reactions often seen in HIV patients.

"Persons with HIV infection have increased rates of drug eruptions," explained Muriel Eliaszewicz and colleagues at the Pasteur Institute Hospital in Paris and other institutions in Paris, Creteil, and Boulogne.

After investigating the risk factors for these reactions in HIV patients, Eliaszewicz and coauthors said that their results run counter to conventional wisdom on drug eruptions.

The researchers examined 136 AIDS patients who were about to undergo sulfonamide treatment for...

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