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The clinical course of varicella and herpes zoster in children with inflammatory bowel disease – a prospective study

Magdalena Chazan
1
,
Ewa Talarek
2
,
Kinga Kowalska-Duplaga
3
,
Katarzyna Kamila Bąk-Drabik
4
,
Mariusz Szczepanik
5
,
Sabina Więcek
6
,
Marcin Banasiuk
1
,
Andrzej Radzikowski
1
,
Aleksandra Banaszkiewicz
1

  1. Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical University, Warszawa, Poland
  2. Department of Children’s Infectious Diseases, Medical University, Warszawa, Poland
  3. Department of Paediatrics, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Polish-American Children’s Hospital, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Kraków, Poland
  4. Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  5. Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
  6. Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Pediatr Pol 2025; 100 (2): 141-150
Data publikacji online: 2025/06/06
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