Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after living-donor liver transplantation in adults

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-116

  Hashimoto, M ^b   Sugawara, Y ^a,b   Tamura, S ^b   Kaneko, J ^b   Matsui, Y ^b   Moriya, K ^a   Koike, K ^a   Makuuchi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Living donor liver transplantation; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; METICILLIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; SULTAMICILLIN; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40849118262     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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