Donor-to-recipient transmission of bacteria as an unusual cause of mediastinitis in a heart transplant recipient

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 132-133

  Burket, Jeffrey S ^a   Chenoweth, Carol E ^a   Meyer, Thomas L ^a   Barg, Neil L ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VEILLONELLA;

HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE DONORS; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 0033071074     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501603     Document Type: Article

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