Donors with positive blood culture: Could they transmit infections to the recipients?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3664-3666

  Gonzalez Segura C ^a   Pascual, M ^a   Huete, L García ^a   Canizares R ^a   Torras, J ^a   Corral, L ^a   Santos, P ^a   Ramos, R ^a   Pujol, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 29544432795     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.08.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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