Legionellosis in a lung transplant recipient obscured by cytomegalovirus infection and Clostridium difficile colitis

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-45

  Nichols, L ^a   Strollo, D C ^a   Kusne, S ^a,b  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Legionella pneumophila; Lung transplantation; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

DAPSONE; DIGOXIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; LANSOPRAZOLE; ONDANSETRON; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0036075721     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3062.2002.t01-1-01001.x     Document Type: Article

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