Notes from the field: transplant-transmitted Balamuthia mandrillaris --- Arizona, 2010.

TitleNotes from the field: transplant-transmitted Balamuthia mandrillaris --- Arizona, 2010.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsCDC
JournalMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Volume59
Issue36
Pagination1182
Date PublishedSep
ISSN1545-861X
Accession Number20847722
KeywordsAdult, Amebiasis, Amoebozoa, Antigens, Protozoan, Arizona, Brain, DNA, Protozoan, Encephalitis, Fatal Outcome, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Organ Transplantation, Tissue Donors
Abstract

On August 23, 2010, CDC was notified regarding two organ transplant recipients in Arizona who had encephalitis with multiple ring-enhancing lesions revealed by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging. The common organ donor, a Hispanic male landscaper aged 27 years, had died in Arizona from a presumed stroke on July 21. He had a large skin lesion for approximately 6 months on his back that he had attributed to an insect bite. The ill recipients, a male liver recipient aged 56 years, and a male recipient of a kidney and pancreas aged 24 years, received organ transplants on July 22. In addition, two other recipients received organs from this donor: an adult male heart recipient received his transplant in California on July 22, and an adult male kidney recipient received his transplant in Utah on July 23.

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