title: Contribution to the problem of the relationship of infection and rejection in patients with kidney transplants.
abstract: The paper deals with the incidence of infectious complications and rejection crises in patients with renal transplants. It was revealed by statistical methods that there exists a certain correlation between infections and rejections, which depends on the type of the infectious agent. In patients where infectious complications were caused only by gram-negative flora an indirect relationship was revealed, while in patients with infectious complications where gram-positive flora, viruses or fungi participated, a marked direct correlation was found. Statistical methods proved also a higher incidence of rejection crises in patients with active cytomegalic infection.
mesh_terms: D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D014181:Transplantation Immunology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology