Tuberculosis isolated to the renal allograft

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Lorimer, I ^a   Botha, J ^a   Pontin, A R ^a   Pascoe, M D ^a   Kahn, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Medical School   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Endemic area; Renal allograft; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033086266     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3062.1999.10109.x     Document Type: Article

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