Posttransplant malaria: First case of transmission of Plasmodium falciparum from a white multiorgan donor to four recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 166-167

  Chiche, Laurence ^a   Lesage, A ^a   Duhamel, C ^a   Salame, E ^a   Malet, M ^a   Samba, D ^a   Segol, P ^a   Treilhaud, M ^b  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION; MALARIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0037439807     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200301150-00031     Document Type: Letter

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