Legionnaires' disease in a transplant recipient acquired from the patient's home: Implications for management

Transplantation

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 755-756

  Sax, A ^a   Dharan, S ^a   Pittet, D ^a   Singh, Nina ^a   Stout, Janet E ^a   Yu, Victor L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0037183828     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200209270-00003     Document Type: Note

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