Cryptosporidiosis in a patient on PEG-interferon and ribavirin for recurrent hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-61

  Manz, M ^a   Steuerwald, M ^a  

^a Division of Gastroenterology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Hepatitis C; Liver transplantation; Pegylated interferon; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOLITIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERFERON ALFA-2A; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RECURRENCE; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 33846977038     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2006.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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