De novo or persistent pseudomonal airway colonization after lung transplantation: Importance for bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome?

Transplantation

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 624-625

  Vos, Robin ^a   Vanaudenaerde, Bart M ^a   De Vleeschauwer, Stephanie I ^a   Van Raemdonck, Dirk E ^a   Dupont, Lieven J ^a   Verleden, Geert M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; ADULT; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADULT; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52449086059     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318182295d     Document Type: Letter

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