Pulmonary infection with microsporidia after allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 299-302

  Teachey, D T ^a   Russo, P ^b   Orenstein, J M ^a   Didier, E S ^c   Bowers, C ^c   Bunin, N ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Microsporidia; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; FOSCARNET; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MITOXANTRONE; OKT 3; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; THIOTEPA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, PARASITIC; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 1342332844     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704327     Document Type: Article

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