Solid organ transplant-associated lymphocytic choriomeningitis, United States, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1256-1262

  MacNeil, Adam ^a   Ströher, Ute ^a   Farnon, Eileen ^a   Campbell, Shelley ^a   Cannon, Deborah ^a   Paddock, Christopher D ^a   Drew, Clifton P ^a   Kuehnert, Matthew ^a   Knust, Barbara ^a   Gruenenfelder, Robert ^b   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Arkansas Organ Recovery Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864439982     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.120212     Document Type: Article

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