Transmission of Pneumocystis species among renal transplant recipients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1150-1151

  Hughes, Walter T ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; MYCOSIS; NOTE; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; VIROLOGY;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 34247240554     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513294     Document Type: Note

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