Tuberculosis and hematopoietic stem cell transplant:Review of a difficult and often underestimated p

• 作 者: Guadalupe García-Elorriag
• 机 构: HospitalforInfectiousDisease,DepartmentofInfectiousDiseaseandIntestinalBacteriologyLaboratory,Centra
• 出 处: 世界临床传染病学杂志
• 发表日期: 2013年4期
• 关键词: TUBERCULOSIS PROPHYLAXIS TRANSPLANT Solid organ TRANSPLANTATION HEMATOPOIETIC st

Recipients of solid organ transplants(SOT)and stem cell transplants(SCT)constitute a group of patients at risk for tuberculosis(TB)development.The prevalence of active TB in patients undergoing SOT is higher than in patients undergoing SCT,probably due to