Pulmonary infections in liver transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus: Changing pattern of microbial etiologies

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 396-401

  Singh, Nina ^a   Gayowski, Timothy ^a   Wagener, Marilyn ^a   Marino, Ignazio R ^a   Yu, Victor L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DATA ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TACROLIMUS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0030046392     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199602150-00013     Document Type: Article

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