Avoidance of Toxoplasma gondii transmission from a recently infected donor to the recipient of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [4]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 735-736

  Brenier Pinchart, M P ^a   Garban, F ^a   Fricker Hidalgo, H ^a   Richard, M J ^a   Makowski, C ^a   Pelloux, H ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSPIRAMYCIN; AMIKACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FANSIDAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTOZOAL DNA; TEICOPLANIN;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; DNA DETERMINATION; DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; SPIRAMYCIN; TISSUE DONORS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 17144371533     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704879     Document Type: Letter

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