Donor-Related Coccidioidomycosis in Organ Transplant Recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1265-1269

  Wright, Patty W ^a,d   Pappagianis, Demosthenes ^b   Wilson, Mark ^a   Louro, Ana ^a   Moser, Stephen A ^a   Komatsu, Kenneth ^c   Pappas, Peter G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION REACTIVATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION;

ADULT; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0242407372     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378741     Document Type: Article

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