Meningococcal sepsis complicating eculizumab treatment despite prior vaccination

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 819-820

  Struijk, G H ^a   Bouts, A H M ^a   Rijkers, G T ^b   Kuin, E A C ^a   Ten Berge, I J M ^a   Bemelman, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; ECULIZUMAB; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT DURATION; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874435634     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12032     Document Type: Letter

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