Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in a renal transplant patient: A case report and review of literature

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 748-752

  Arya, Basant ^a   Hussian, Syed ^a   Hariharan, Sundaram ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pneumonia; Renal transplant; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; AZITHROMYCIN; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CD68 ANTIGEN; CLONAZEPAM; METOPROLOL; MOXIFLOXACIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PAROXETINE; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RISEDRONIC ACID; TACROLIMUS; VITAMIN D;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HISTIOCYTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG GRANULOMA; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 8644231858     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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