Donor-derived strongyloides stercoralis infection in solid organ transplant recipients in the United States, 2009-2013

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1369-1375

  Abanyie, F A ^a   Gray, E B ^a   Delli Carpini, K W ^b   Yanofsky, A ^c   McAuliffe, I ^a   Rana, M ^d   Chin Hong, P V ^e   Barone, C N ^f   Davis, J L ^g   Montgomery, S P ^a   Huprikar, S ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b New York Organ Donor Network   (United States)

^c Medical Associates of the Hudson Valley   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

donors and donation: donor derived infections; infection and infectious agents; parasitic

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CEFEPIME; DIURETIC AGENT; GANCICLOVIR; IVERMECTIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CLOT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECREASED APPETITE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; SCREENING; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LATIN AMERICA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928047891     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13137     Document Type: Article

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