Transfusion-transmitted visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana in an immunocompromised patient: A case report

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1919-1923

  Mestra, Laureano ^a,b   Lopez, Liliana ^a,b   Robledo, Sara M ^a,b   Muskus, Carlos E ^a,b   Nicholls, Rubén S ^a,b   Vélez, Iván Darío ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIGEN PP65; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFURTIMOX;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ANEMIA; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEUKOPENIA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE;

EID: 80052523227     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03092.x     Document Type: Article

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