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Infections in Pediatric Transplant Recipients: Not Just Small Adults
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Infections in Pediatric Transplant Recipients: Not Just Small Adults

Marian G. Michaels and Michael Green
Hematology/oncology clinics of North America, v 25(1)
01 Feb 2011
PMID: 21236395

Abstract

Hematology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Oncology Science & Technology
Transplantation increasingly is being used as treatment for children with end-stage organ diseases, hematopoietic rescue from therapy used to treat malignancies, and as cure for primary immune deficiencies. This article reviews some of the major concepts regarding infections that complicate pediatric transplantation, highlighting differences in epidemiology, evaluation, treatment and prevention for children compared with adult recipients.

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