Increased infections in liver transplant recipients with recurrent hepatitis C virus hepatitis

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 402-406

  Singh, Nina ^a   Gayowski, Timothy ^a   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a   Marino, Ignazio R ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INFECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0030066247     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199602150-00014     Document Type: Article

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