Incidence and diagnosis of active toxoplasma infection among liver transplant recipients in Western Turkey

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1526-1532

  Caner, Ayşe ^a,b   Döşkaya, Mert ^a   Karasu, Zeki ^a   Deǧirmenci, Aysu ^a   Guy, Edward ^b   Kiliç, Murat ^a   Zeytunlu, Murat ^a   Francis, Janet ^b   Bozoklar, Ata ^a   Gürüz, Yüksel ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EDETIC ACID; EYE DROPS; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TURKEY;

EID: 57849103526     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21558     Document Type: Article

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