Tuberculous infection in southern Chinese renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 666-671

  Lui, Sing Leung ^a   Tang, Sydney ^a   Li, Fu Keung ^a   Choy, Bo Ying ^a   Chan, Tak Mao ^a   Lo, Wai Kei ^a   Lai, Kar Neng ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Renal transplantation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RAPAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOUT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LARYNX DISORDER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBERCULOSIS; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 8644232737     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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