Urinary Tract Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients: Virulence Traits of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 483-485

  Mercon M ^a   Regua Mangia, A H ^a   Teixeira, L M ^a   Irino, K ^b   Tuboi, S H ^a   Goncalves, R T ^a   Santoro Lopes, G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYELONEPHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GOATS; GUINEA PIGS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHENOTYPE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RABBITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHEEP; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77949434593     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.01.049     Document Type: Article

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