Successful management of pulmonary tuberculosis in renal allograft recipients in a single center

Kidney International

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1944-1950

  Jha, Vivekanand ^a   Sakhuja, Vinay ^a   Gupta, Dheeraj ^a   Krishna, V Sree ^a   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a   Joshi, Kusum ^a   Sud, Kamal ^a   Kohli, Harbir S ^a   Gupta, Krishan L ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Cotrimoxazole; Cyclosporine; Kidney transplantation; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032746360     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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