Nocardiosis following solid organ transplantation: A single-centre experience

Transplant International

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1048-1053

  Wiesmayr, Silve ^a   Stelzmüller, Ingrid ^a   Tabarelli, Walther ^a   Bargehr, Derinique ^a   Graziadei, Ivo ^a   Freund, Michael ^a   Ladurner, Ruth ^a   Steurer, Wolfgang ^a   Geltner, Christine ^b   Mark, Walter ^a   Margreiter, Raimond ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Krankenhaus Natters   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infection; Nacardiosis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXYCYCLINE; FOSFOMYCIN; GANCICLOVIR; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; LINEZOLID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ACTINOMYCES; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; AGED; ARTICLE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 26944459673     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2005.00177.x     Document Type: Review

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