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Smoking association with influenza infection in renal transplant recipients

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Transpl Infect Dis. 2013 Nov 12. doi: 10.1111/tid.12160. [Epub ahead of print]
Smoking association with influenza infection in renal transplant recipients.
Sparks JA, Brennan DC, Lawrence SJ.
Source

Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract

We identified 22 cases of influenza infection among renal transplant recipients and matched them with 66 controls by influenza season to explore risk factors for influenza infection. Active cigarette smoking was associated with influenza infection in this population (adjusted odds ratio 13.1; 95% confidence interval 2.3-76; P = 0.004).

? 2013 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
KEYWORDS:

influenza virus, organ transplant, renal transplant, smoking

PMID:
24215425
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24215425
 
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