Intestinal tuberculosis presenting as fever of unknown origin in a heart transplant patient

Infection

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 289-290

  Zedtwitz Liebenstein, K ^a   Podesser, B ^a   Peck Radosavljevic, M ^a   Graninger, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SERODIAGNOSIS; TONSIL DISEASE;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COLONIC DISEASES; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 0032866782     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s150100050034     Document Type: Article

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