West Nile virus encephalitis: An emerging disease in renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 753-758

  Wadei, Hani ^a   Alangaden, George J ^a   Sillix, Dale H ^a   El Amm, Jose M ^a   Gruber, Scott A ^a   West, Miguel S ^a   Granger, Darla K ^a   Garnick, James ^b   Chandrasekar, Pranatharthi ^a   Migdal, Stephen D ^a   Haririan, Abdolreza ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Kidney transplant; Status epilepticus; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; PROPOFOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SERUM; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AGED; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WEST NILE FEVER;

EID: 8644254441     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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