Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi by heart transplantation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1534-1540

  Kun, Heather ^a   Moore, Anne ^a,b   Mascola, Laurene ^d   Steurer, Frank ^b   Lawrence, Gena ^b   Kubak, Bernard ^e   Radhakrishna, Suman ^f   Leiby, David ^j   Herron, Ross ^g   Mone, Tom ^h   Hunter, Robert ⁱ   Kuehnert, Matthew ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Division of Parasitic Diseases   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Acute Communicable Disease Control Program   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^h OneLegacy   (United States)

ⁱ California Department of Health   (United States)

^j HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFURTIMOX; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONITORING; ORGAN DONOR; PARASITEMIA; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; SCREENING; SERUM; STAINING; TISSUE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949151065     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598931     Document Type: Article

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