title: Infections in recipients of kidney transplants.
abstract: A review of infections in kidney transplant recipients is presented in this article, beginning with a discussion of the pretransplant infectious diseases evaluation and an overview of the timing of infectious posttransplant, and then focusing on individual types of infection.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. patel.robin@mayo.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patel
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000628:therapy; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy / Q000821:virology