Acute Bacteremia in Asplenic Renal Transplant Patients

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 237, Issue 20, 1977, Pages 2207-2208

  Schröter, Gerhard P J ^a   West, John C ^b   Weil, Richard ^b  

^a Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE;

BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHILD; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPTICEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0017682963     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1977.03270470043021     Document Type: Article

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