Travel medicine and transplant tourism in solid organ transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL.4, 2013, Pages 337-347

  Kotton, C N ^a,b   Hibberd, P L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Solid organ transplant; travel medicine; vaccinations; vaccines

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; AZITHROMYCIN; BCG VACCINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEPATITIS A HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEASLES VACCINE; MEFLOQUINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; RABIES VACCINE; RECOMBINANT HEPATITIS B VACCINE; TYMPHIMVI; TYPHOID VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; EMPORIATRICS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLUENZA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT; MALARIA; MEASLES; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN CANCER; SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOURISM; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VACCINATION; YELLOW FEVER;

HUMANS; MEDICAL TOURISM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TRAVEL MEDICINE; VACCINES;

EID: 84874836690     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12125     Document Type: Article

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