Dengue has a benign presentation in renal transplant patients: A case series

Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-307

  Renaud, Claude Jeffrey ^a   Manjit, Kaur ^a   Pary, Sivaraman ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Dengue haemorrhagic fever; Renal transplant; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DENGUE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SINGAPORE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

AGED; DENGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGAPORE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 34248232977     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2007.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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