The risk factors and laboratory diagnostics for post renal transplant tuberculosis: A case-control, country-wide study on definitive cases

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-235

  Basiri, A ^a   Hosseini Moghaddam, S M ^a   Simforoosh, N ^a   Einollahi, B ^b   Hosseini, M ^c   Foirouzan, A ^d   Pourrezagholi, F ^e   Nafar, M ^e   Zargar, M A ^f   Pourmand, G ^f   Tara, A ^e   Mombeni, H ^c   Moradi, M R ^g   Afshar, A Taghizadeh ^h   Gholamrezaee, H R ⁱ   Bohlouli, A ^j   Nezhadgashti, H ^f   Akbarzadehpasha, A ^k   Ahmad, E ^l   Salehipour, M ^m   Yazdani, M ⁿ   Nasrollahi, A ^e   Oghbaee, N ^o   Azad, R Esmaeeli ^o   Mohammadi, Z ^o   Razzaghi, Z ^a   more..

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h West Azarbaiejan Medical University   (Iran)

ⁱ SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^j UNRC   (Iran)

^k BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^l Urology ^*

^m SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁿ ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^o UNRC   (Iran)

more..

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Risk factors; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBERCULOSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 47849097742     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2007.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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