Tuberculosis in renal transplant recipients

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-101

  Ram, R ^a   Swarnalatha, G ^a   Prasad, N ^a   Dakshinamurty, K V ^a  

^a NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Renal transplantation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZATHIOPRINE; BASILIXIMAB; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; FLUCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; PERICARDITIS; PERITONITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SUPERINFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34247633213     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2006.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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