Infectious complications among 620 consecutive heart transplant patients at Stanford University Medical Center.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on August 06, 2001

Authors

J G Montoya1, L F Giraldo, B Efron, E B Stinson, P Gamberg, S Hunt, N Giannetti, J Miller, J S Remington

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Research Institute, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California 94301, USA. gilberto@leland.stanford.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Adult Heart Transplantation: a French National Survey (ATC) | NCT02479503

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