Possible donor-recipient bartonellosis transmission in a pediatric liver transplant

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 431-433

  Scolfaro, C ^a   Mignone, F ^a   Gennari, F ^a   Alfarano, A ^a   Veltri, A ^a   Romagnoli, R ^a   Salizzoni, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bartonella henselae; Cat scratch disease; Children; Liver transplant

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZATHIOPRINE; AZITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER GRANULOMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMIKACIN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; AZITHROMYCIN; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TACROLIMUS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 56549116324     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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