Opportunistic infections with strongyloides stercoralis in renal transplantation

Reviews of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 653-671

  DeVault, George A ^a,b   King, John W ^a,b   Rohr, Michael S ^a,b   Landreneau, Michael D ^a,b   Brown, Stephen T ^a,b   McDonald, John C ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; TIABENDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIARRHEA; EOSINOPHILIA; FATALITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LARVA; LEUKOPENIA; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NAUSEA; NEMATODE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SPUTUM; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0025333918     PISSN: 01620886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/12.4.653     Document Type: Article

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