Enhancing transplant safety: A new era in the microbiologic evaluation of organ donors?

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2652-2654

  Fishman, J A ^a   Greenwald, M A ^b   Kuehnert, M J ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR PREPAREDNESS DETECTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EDITORIAL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; SCREENING TEST; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 35748957131     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2007.02023.x     Document Type: Editorial

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