Erratum: Babesia as a complication of immunosuppression following pig-to-baboon heart transplantation (Xenotransplantation (2007) 14,2, (162-165) DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00375.x);Babesia as a complication of immunosuppression following pig-to-baboon heart transplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 162-165

  Ezzelarab, Mohamed ^a   Yeh, Peter ^a   Wagner, Robert ^b   Cooper, David K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia; Baboon; Immunosuppression; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CD40 LIGAND MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; CEFAZOLIN; COBROTOXIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEFLOQUINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BABOON; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FATALITY; FEVER; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALARIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947425141     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00413_2.x     Document Type: Erratum

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