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Colonisation of lung allografts with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in heart-lung transplant recipients with cystic fibrosis.
Thorax - 1 Jul 1994
Tsang V, Pitt T L, Kaufmann M E, Gaya H, Hodson M E, Yacoub M
Abstract excerpt
Six patients (four with cystic fibrosis, two with bronchiectasis) harboured Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the lung before heart-lung transplantation. Three of the patients with cystic fibrosis were colonised by strains of different genotype postoperatively, and the colonisation tended to be short lived.
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