Medical Progress : Infection in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients  

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Fishman, Jay A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 357 no. 25 (Dec. 2007), page 2601.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2007.06 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Full Text PDF PDA Full Text PowerPoint Slide Set CME Exam Increasingly potent immunosuppressive agents have dramatically reduced the incidence of rejection of transplanted organs while increasing patients' susceptibility to opportunistic infections and cancer.1,2 At the same time, patterns of opportunistic infections after transplantation have been altered by routine antimicrobial prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii (also called P. jirovecii) and cytomegalovirus. These patterns have also been altered by the emergence of new clinical syndromes (e.g., polyomavirus type BK nephropathy) and by infections due to organisms with antimicrobial resistance. New quantitative molecular and antigen-based microbiologic assays detect previously unrecognized transplantation-associated pathogens such as lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. These assays are used in the . . .

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