Endemic and opportunistic infections in Brazilian solid organ transplant recipients

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1134-1142

  Batista, M V ^a   Pierrotti, L C ^a   Abdala, E ^a   Clemente, W T ^a   Girao E S ^b   Rosa, D R T ^c   Ianhez, L E ^a   Bonazzi, P R ^a   Lima, A S ^a   Fernandes, P F C B C ^b   Padua Neto M V ^c   Bacchella, T ^a   Oliveira, A P P ^a   Viana, C F G ^b   Ferreira, M S ^c   Shikanai Yasuda, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b University of Ceará   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Endemic disease; Fungal diseases; Solid organ transplant; Transplant infectious disease; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH IMPACT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOFTWARE; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOCARDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; BRAZIL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

BRAZIL;

BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS;

EID: 79961168685     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02816.x     Document Type: Article

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