Risk of Pneumococcal Infections in Renal Transplant Patients

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 241, Issue 24, 1979, Pages 2619-2621

  Linnemann, Calvin C ^a   First, M Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK; SEPTICEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK; SEPTICEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0018791723     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290500027016     Document Type: Article

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