Lessons from a transplant patient with diarrhea, cryptosporidial infection, and possible mycophenolate mofetil-associated colitis

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 416-418

  Frei, P ^a   Weber, A ^a   Geier, A ^a   Mertens, J C ^a   Kohler, S ^a   Rogler, G ^a   Mullhaupt B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium diarrhea; Diarrhea; Drug toxicity; Infection; Mycophenolate mofetil

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; EVEROLIMUS; HEMATOXYLIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PAROMOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GOUT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PAROMOMYCIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79961210143     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2011.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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