Preventing tuberculosis in paediatric kidney transplant recipients: is there a role for BCG immunisation pre-transplantation in low tuberculosis incidence countries?

The risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease is increased in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD), even higher in stage 5 CKD/kidney failure and especially high after kidney transplantation due to immunosuppression. TB disease may follow recent primary infection, or result from reactivation of latent...

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Autores principales: Bamford, Alasdair, Dixon, Garth, Klein, Nigel, Marks, Stephen D., Ritz, Nicole, Welch, Steven B., Tebruegge, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8445864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33245418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00467-020-04844-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8445864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33245418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00467-020-04844-5

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