Risk of tuberculosis in tuberculin skin test-positive liver transplant patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 207-208

  Chaparro, Sandra V ^a   Montoya, Jose G ^a   Keeffe, Emmet B ^a   Rhee, Jeanne T ^a   Small, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032792907     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520159     Document Type: Article

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