Concurrent infection of the urinary tract with Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Enterocytozoon bieneusi in a renal transplant recipient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1780-1782

  Kicia, Marta ^a   Wesolowska, Maria ^a   Jakuszko, Katarzyna ^a   Kopacz, Zaneta ^a   Sak, Bohumil ^b   Květonová, Dana ^b   Krajewska, Magdalena ^a   Kváč, Martin ^b,c  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE SEDIMENT; COINFECTION; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PROCEDURES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ADULT; COINFECTION; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84899558131     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03328-13     Document Type: Article

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