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World J Gastroenterol. Apr 14, 2007; 13(14): 2072-2076
Published online Apr 14, 2007. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i14.2072
Published online Apr 14, 2007. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i14.2072
Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea after living donor liver transplantation
Masao Hashimoto, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Sumihito Tamura, Junichi Kaneko, Yuichi Matsui, Junichi Togashi, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
Author contributions: All authors contributed equally to the work.
Supported by a Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan and Grants-in-aid for Research on HIV/AIDS, a multicenter pilot clinical study to compare the safety and efficacy of a steroid and steroid free immunosuppression protocol with monoclonal anti-IL2R antibody in HCV positive living donor liver transplantation and Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan
Correspondence to: Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. yasusuga-tky@umin.ac.jp
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Received: November 10, 2006
Revised: March 23, 2007
Accepted: March 30, 2007
Published online: April 14, 2007
Revised: March 23, 2007
Accepted: March 30, 2007
Published online: April 14, 2007
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