Uniform definitions for donor-derived infectious disease transmissions in solid organ transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1297-1300

  Garzoni, Christian ^a   Ison, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition; Donor derived infectious diseases; Organ donor

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DONOR; EDITORIAL; FRANCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PARIS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84858416080     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318236cd02     Document Type: Review

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