An association between rheumatoid arthritis and scabies infection: A population-based study in Taiwan

Ren-Jun Hsu¹, Jui-Ming Liu², Her-Young Su³, Cheng-Ping Yu⁴, Mu-Hsien Yu³, Jih-Chin Lee⁵, Fung-Wei Chang^3
1 National Defense Medical Center, Graduate Institute of Life Sciences; Department of Pathology, National Defense Medical Center, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, The Tri-Service General Hospital; National Defense Medical Center, Biobank Management Center of the Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
² National Defense Medical Center, Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, Taipei; Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan; Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Defense Medical Center, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
⁴ Department of Pathology, National Defense Medical Center, Graduate Institute of Pathology and Parasitology, The Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
⁵ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, National Defense Medical Center, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Fung-Wei Chang
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Defense Medical Center, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Republic of China

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/jmedsci.jmedsci_95_16