Infectious risk in xenotransplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-184

  Mueller, Nicolas J ^a   Fishman, Jay A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Exclusion; Infection; Porcine endogenous retrovirus; Risk; Screening; Virus; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CIRCOVIRIDAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAFT REJECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER FAILURE; MICROBIOLOGY; MONITORING; MOUSE STRAIN; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PORCINE ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; PRIMATE; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33645816142     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mot.0000218933.27397.50     Document Type: Review

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