BK virus screening and management practices among US renal transplant programs: A survey

Transplant International

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1339-1341

  Hodowanec, Aimee C ^a   Simon, David M ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BK VIRUS; BK VIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; VIREMIA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS REACTIVATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIOPSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERNET; MASS SCREENING; NEPHROLOGY; PHYSICIAN; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BIOPSY; BK VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERNET; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MASS SCREENING; NEPHROLOGY; PHYSICIANS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SURGEONS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929791749     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tri.12602     Document Type: Letter

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