Community-acquired respiratory viruses after lung transplantation: Common, sometimes silent, potentially lethal

Thorax

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-2

  Glanville, Allan R ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BOCAVIRUS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED RESPIRATORY VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LETHALITY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MICROANGIOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PICORNAVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; SYMPTOM; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BRONCHOSCOPY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; RESPIRATORY INFECTION; VIRAL INFECTION;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84890297960     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204327     Document Type: Editorial

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