A Rare Diarrheic Parasite in a Liver Transplant Patient: Isospora belli

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1693-1695

  Atambay, M ^a   Bayraktar, M R ^a   Kayabas, U ^a   Yilmaz, S ^a   Bayindir, Y ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; ISOSPORA BELLI; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; ISOSPORA; ISOSPORIASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 34250206906     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.02.080     Document Type: Article

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