Mycobacterium haemophilum infections in heart transplant recipients: Case report and review of the literature

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 476-479

  Fairhurst, Rick M ^a   Kubak, Bernard M ^a   Pegues, David A ^a   Moriguchi, Jaime D ^a   Han, Karen F ^a   Haley, Jennifer C ^a   Kobashigawa, Jon A ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid fast bacilli; Atypical mycobacteria; Heart transplantation; Mycobacterium haemophilum; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL INTOLERANCE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036589870     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2002.20514.x     Document Type: Article

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