Clostridium difficile and cytomegalovirus colitis co-infection: Search for the hidden 'bug'

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-415

  Florescu, D F ^a   Mindru, C ^b   Chambers, H E ^a   Kalil, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; CMV; Co infection; Colitis; Cytomegalovirus

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; GANCICLOVIR; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STOMACH BIOPSY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UROSEPSIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COINFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79961207906     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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