A dance teacher with kidney-pancreas transplant and diarrhoea: What is the cause?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1759-1761

  Burdese, Manuel ^a   Veglio, Valerio ^b   Consiglio, Valentina ^a   Soragna, Giorgio ^a   Mezza, Elisabetta ^a   Bergamo, Daniela ^a   Tattoli, Fabio ^a   Rossetti, Maura ^a   Jeantet, Alberto ^a   Segoloni, Giuseppe Paolo ^a   Piccoli, Giorgina Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b AMEDEO DI SAVOIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Diarrhoea; Immunodepression; Kidney transplantation; Pancreas transplantation

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LACTIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NEOMYCIN; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AFRICA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUBA; CYSTITIS; DANCING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHER; TRAVEL; WORKSHOP;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RIFAMYCINS;

EID: 26444436378     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh881     Document Type: Article

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