Pneumonia in Solid Organ Recipients: Spectrum of Pathogens in 217 Episodes

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 371-374

  Bonatti, H ^a   Pruett, T L ^a   Brandacher, G ^b   Hagspiel, K D ^a   Housseini, A M ^a   Sifri, C D ^a   Sawyer, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; OKT 3; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KLEBSIELLA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 60649084227     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.10.045     Document Type: Article

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