Campath-1H induction and the incidence of infectious complications in adult renal transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-20

  Malek, Sayeed K ^a,b   Obmann, Melissa A ^a   Gotoff, Robert A ^a   Foltzer, Michael A ^a   Hartle, James E ^a   Potdar, Santosh ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Campath 1H; Infection; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIREMIA; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 31044452372     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000189713.14993.db     Document Type: Article

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