Increased seroprevalence of human herpes virus-8 in renal transplant recipients in Saudi Arabia

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2532-2536

  Alzahrani, Alhussein J ^a   El Harith, El Harith A ^b   Milzer, Jutta ^b   Obeid, Obeid E ^a   Stuhrmann, Manfred ^b   Al Dayel, Adel ^c   Mohamed, Eltayeb A ^c   Al Egail, Siddig ^c   Daoud, Majid ^c   Chowdhury, Ayub ^c   Guella, Adnane ^c   Aloraifi, Ibrahim ^c   Schulz, Thomas F ^b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c King Fahad Military Medical Complex   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

HHV 8 seroprevalence; Immunosuppression; Renal transplant recipients

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LATENCY ASSOCIATED NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 27344455111     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi058     Document Type: Article

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