Clinical significance of surveillance culture in liver transplant recipients

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 828-831

  Kim, Y J ^a   Kim, S I ^a   Jun, Y H ^a   Choi, J Y ^a   Yoon, S K ^a   You, Y K ^a   Kim, D G ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA GLABRATA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEAL FLUID CULTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84899507435     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.11.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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