Tuberculosis in solid-organ transplant recipients: Disease characteristics and outcomes in the current era

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-43

  Sun, Hsin Yun ^a   Munoz, Patricia ^b   Torre Cisneros, Julian ^c   Aguado, Jose M ^d   Lattes, Roberta ^c   Montejo, Miguel ^f   Garcia Reyne, Ana ^d   Bouza, Emilio ^b   Valerio, Maricela ^b   Lara, Rosario ^e   Wagener, Marilyn M ⁱ   John, George T ^g   Bruno, Didier ^h   Singh, Nina ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^e Instituto de Nefrologia Buenos Aires ar   (Argentina)

^f HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

^g CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN FAVALORO   (Argentina)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RIFAMPIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84896789042     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/pit2014398     Document Type: Article

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