Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome after intestinal transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-141

  Patel, G ^a   Arvelakis, A ^a   Sauter, B V ^a,b   Gondolesi, G E ^a,c   Caplivski, D ^a   Huprikar, S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GastroZentrum Hirslanden   (Switzerland)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Intestinal transplant; Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ENEMA; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IVERMECTIN; LINEZOLID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TIABENDAZOLE; TIGECYCLINE; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE PSYCHOSIS; INTESTINE GRAFT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MICROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTESTINES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40849140901     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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