A case of campylobacter enteritis in a renal transplant recipient

Transplantation

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Imai, Naohiko ^a   Uchida, Daisuke ^a   Hanada, Masaya ^a   Sasaki, Sho ^a   Shibagaki, Yugo ^a   Chikaraishi, Tatsuya ^a   Kimura, Kenjiro ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPETITE DISORDER; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ULCER; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84880106257     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318299b9a5     Document Type: Letter

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