Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection among lung transplant recipients: A 15-year cohort study

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 452-460

  Knoll, B M ^a   Kappagoda, S ^b   Gill, R R ^a   Goldberg, H J ^a   Boyle, K ^a   Baden, L R ^a   Fuhlbrigge, A L ^a   Marty, F M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; MAC; Mycobacteria; Mycobacterium abscessus; Mycobacterium avium complex; Non tuberculous; NTM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867651872     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2012.00753.x     Document Type: Article

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