Histoplasmosis in solid organ transplant recipients: 10 years of experience at a large transplant center in an endemic area

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 710-716

  Cuellar Rodriguez, J ^a   Avery, R K ^a   Lard, M ^a   Budev, M ^a   Gordon, S M ^a   Shrestha, N K ^a   Van Duin, D ^a   Oethinger, M ^a   Mawhorter, S D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70149100906     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/604712     Document Type: Article

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