Introduction: Infection in solid organ transplant recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages

  Fishman, J A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor derived infection; Fungus; Immunosuppression; Opportunistic infection; Prophylaxis; Timeline; Transplant infectious disease; Virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BORTEZOMIB; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FENCLONINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOPLASM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OPSONIZATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN; SPLENECTOMY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; T CELL DEPLETION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

HUMANS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 72949091272     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02887.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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