Epidemiology of systemic mycoses among renal-transplant recipients in India

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1544-1551

  John, George Tharayil ^a   Shankar, Viswanathan ^a   Talaulikar, Girish ^a   Mathews, Mary S ^a   Abraham, Mookanottle Abraham ^a   Thomas, Paulose Punnakuzhathil ^a   Jacob, Chakko Korula ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDIA; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037910288     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000061610.34110.04     Document Type: Article

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