Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a renal transplant patient: Case report and review of the literature

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1139-1142

  Adachi, Javier A ^a   Grimm, Ellen M ^a   Johnson, Philip ^a   Uthman, Margaret ^a   Kaplan, Bruce ^a   Rakita, Robert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Section of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOPENIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GRANULOCYTE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK;

AGED; ANIMALS; EHRLICHIOSIS; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREVALENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0030671041     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199710270-00010     Document Type: Article

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