Disseminated Mycobacterium gordonae infection in a renal transplant recipient

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 151-155

  Den Broeder, Alfons A ^a,c   Vervoort, G ^a   Van Assen, S ^a   Verduyn Lunel, F ^a   De Lange, W C ^b   De Sevaux R G L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University Lung Centre Dekkerswald   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immunosuppressive therapy; Line Probe Assay (LiPA); Mycobacterium gordonae; Non tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM); Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; ATENOLOL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; METFORMIN; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINE PROBE ASSAY; LIVER CELL; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG LAVAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; PANCYTOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE HYBRIDIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN CELL; SPLENECTOMY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BONE MARROW; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; SPLEEN;

EID: 0242291865     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3062.2003.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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