Toxoplasmosis in a post-transplant bronchoalveolar lavage: A case report

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 629-634

  Monaco, Sara E ^a   Monaghan, Sara A ^a   Stamm, Jason A ^b   Khalbuss, Walid E ^a   Nichols, Larry ^a   Pantanowitz, Liron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bronchoalveolar lavage; cytology; Toxoplasma gondii; toxoplasmosis; transplant

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DYSPNEA; FATALITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84862554276     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21646     Document Type: Article

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