Transplant tourism and donor-derived parasitic infections

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2448-2449

  Kotton, C N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SMEAR; CHAGAS DISEASE; DONOR DERIVED PARASITIC INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MEDICAL TOURISM; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIREMIA;

HUMANS; MEDICAL TOURISM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARASITIC DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 80051702076     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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