Korean J Transplant.  2022 Jun;36(2):159-163. 10.4285/kjt.22.0025.

COVID-19 among solid organ transplant recipients in Korea: surveillance data of the Korean Transplantation Society, January 2020 to March 2022

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Severance Children's Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 2Institute for Immunology and Immunological Diseases, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 3Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  • 4Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea
  • 5Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 6Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 7Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 8Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
  • 9Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 10Department of Infectious Diseases, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 11Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 12Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 13Division of Infectious Disease, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea


Figure

  • Fig. 1 The monthly number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients in Korea, (A) by SOT type, (B) by sex, (C) by age, (D) by site of isolation and treatment, and (E) by clinical course.


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