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Viral Infections

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  2. Dept. Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, 12th Floor, Herbert Irving Pavilion 161 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA

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  3. Dept. Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

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Lozano, A., Arora, A., Mendoza, N., Madkan, V., Tyring, S.K. (2010). Viral Infections. In: Krieg, T., Bickers, D.R., Miyachi, Y. (eds) Therapy of Skin Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78814-0_16

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