Donor-to-host transmission of Mycoplasma hominis in lung allograft recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 567-568

  Gass, Rebekah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; WOUND DRAINAGE;

EID: 0029744247     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.3.567     Document Type: Article

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