Serologic evidence for reactivation of cryptococcosis in solid-organ transplant recipients

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1550-1554

  Saha, D C ^a   Goldman, D L ^b   Shao, X ^b   Casadevall, A ^b   Husain, S ^c   Limaye, A P ^d   Lyon, M ^e   Somani, J ^e   Pursell, K ^f   Pruett, T L ^g   Singh, N ^c,h  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RATS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 38049075711     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00242-07     Document Type: Article

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