Microbiological Hazards Related to Xenotransplantation of Porcine Organs into Man

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 355-365

  Borie, Dominic C ^a   Cramer, Donald V ^b   Phan Thanh, Luu ^c   Vaillant, Jean Christophe ^a   Bequet, Jean Louis ^d   Makowka, Leonard ^b   Hannoun, Laurent ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIROLOGY; XENOGRAFT; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0032062174     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647830     Document Type: Article

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