Nocardial infection after renal transplation: Is-it more common with new immuno-suppressants mycophenolate mofetil and tacrolimus?;La nocardiose est-elle plus fréquemment observée depuis l'introduction des nouveaux immunosuppresseurs en transplantation rénale?

Nephrologie

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Canet, S ^a   Garrigue, V ^a   Bismuth, J ^a   Chong, G ^a   Lesnik, A ^a   Taourel, P ^a   Mourad, Georges ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Mycophenolate mofetil; Nocardiosis; Overimmunosuppression; Renal transplantation; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORINE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TACROLIMUS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 1942424112     PISSN: 02504960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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