Transmission of Strongyloides stercoralis through transplantation of solid organs - Pennsylvania, 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 264-266

  Hasan, Anjum ^a   Le, Marie ^a   Pasko, Jessica ^a   Ravin, Karen A ^a   Clauss, Heather ^b   Hasz, Richard ^f   Hunt, Elizabeth A ^c   Bosserman, Elizabeth ^d   Mcauliffe, Isabel ^d   Montgomery, Susan P ^d   Kuehnert, Matthew J ^d   Hocevar, Susan N ^e   Abanyie, Francisca ^d  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f CDC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IVERMECTIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PENNSYLVANIA; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876433295     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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