Babesiosis in a renal transplant recipient acquired through blood transfusion

Transplantation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 205-208

  Perdrizet, George A ^a,e   Olson, Neil H ^a   Krause, Peter J ^b   Banever, Gregory T ^a   Spielman, Andrew ^c   Cable, Ritchard G ^d  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Farmington   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; QUININE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034661621     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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