As a result, selection, publication, and ascertainment biases significantly limit the usefulness of this literature in evaluating the distribution of patients by specific etiologic diagnosis ...

Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease of the pilosebaceous units. Traditional etiologic factors include increased sebum production, ductal hyperkeratosis, abnormality of the microbial flora ...

At a minimum, investigations of NOD mice have enhanced our appreciation of the etiologic complexity of type 1 diabetes in humans and provided an example of how promising results obtained in an ...

Mauguen A, Zabor EC, Thomas NE, Berwick M, Seshan VE, Begg CB. Defining cancer subtypes with distinctive etiologic profiles: an application to the epidemiology of melanoma. Journal of the American ...

Because it is very important for any physician to recognize, early in the course of any infectious disease, its etiologic agents, imparting this knowledge is the main goal and objective of the courses ...

It is hoped by investigators working in this field that these studies will lead to the identification of etiologic factors (e.g., viral antigens/proteins) in lupus. Over the last decade or so, we have ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...