Mycobacterium avium complex infection in kidney transplant patients

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-79

  Haas, S ^a   Scully, B ^a   Cohen, D ^a   Radhakrishnan, Jai ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

MAC; Mycobacterium avium complex; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; RIFABUTIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JOINT EFFUSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NAUSEA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SARCOIDOSIS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WRIST DISEASE;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION;

EID: 25144464389     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2005.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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