Nocardia infection in kidney transplant recipients: Case report and analysis of 66 published cases

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 385-391

  Yu, X ^a,b   Han, F ^a,b   Wu, J ^a,b   He, Q ^a   Peng, W ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Huang, H ^a   Li, H ^a   Wang, R ^a   Chen, J ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Aerobic Actinomycetes; Clinical characteristics; Cotrimoxazole; Kidney transplantation; Nocardia

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PERICARDIUM; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 79961206731     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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