Health preparations and travel-related morbidity of kidney transplant recipients traveling to developing countries

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 567-570

  Roukens, A H E ^a   van Dissel, J T ^a   de Fijter, J W ^a   Visser, L G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Organ transplantation; Travel

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; VACCINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MOUTH ULCER; NORTH AMERICA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYNCOPE; THROAT DISEASE; TRAVEL; TRAVELLER DIARRHEA; VACCINATION; WESTERN EUROPE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; TRAVEL;

EID: 34547449326     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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