Diagnosis and course of echinococcocal diseases in the transplant setting

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-221

  Kern, Peter ^a   Gruner B ^a   Wahlers, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE;

EID: 79958001553     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00643.x     Document Type: Editorial

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