A pulmonary mass caused by Rhodococcus equi infection in a renal transplant recipient

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 398-403

  Speck, Dorothee ^a   Koneth, Irene ^a   Diethelm, Markus ^a   Binet, Isabelle ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Opportunistic infection; Pneumonia; Post transplant infection; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALENDRONIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; ESOMEPRAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; SIMVASTATIN; VANCOMYCIN; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG PSEUDOTUMOR; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MYOPARTHY; MYOPATHY; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SPUTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46249127487     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0833     Document Type: Article

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